I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls that they go from their gut check.

Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies nobody would cast me as a romantic lead but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture including TV magazines movies and video games.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life that would be one thing but I don't want to just make spy movies.

I always wanted to make movies.

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation popular hits came out of shows and movies.

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

Ultimately to have a career in movies to a certain extent certainly in England you can't sustain a career in just English movies.

I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.

Obviously I'm attracted to heavier movies.

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made there's no question.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

Most movies once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too but for me they're like entire movies. And they show them on cable.

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done people still recite lines to me even 20 years later.

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.