I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think 'Gee there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best and he's been very successful.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights and maybe pitfalls too.

I like to direct movies but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

I like very much to do movies.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

I don't know why but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

I'm not an especially highbrow person but I have always loved small quirky edgy movies.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.

Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me only thrust onto greatness.

The movies I made early on may not have been great but they were all commercially successful.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more that'd be helpful.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks and small budget movies have no perks but what is the driving force of course is the script and your part in it.

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out you know what I'm saying you can only be out so long without work you start getting antsy.

When I got depressed I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

I've choreographed all of my movies.

I really like children to watch my movies.