After making several tragic movies in a row I was looking to do a comedy and one without cynicism.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

I look at American movies the big muscles and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.

In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them but you can't really hate them.

The whole world loves American movies blue jeans jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.

When we talk about how movies used to be made it was over 100 years of film literal physical film with emulsion that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

I live very normally I go out with my friends we go to the movies I queue we go to restaurants.

I go to the movies a lot and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like to find them offering no more surprises.

Sure 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.

You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.

A lot of the struggle I had with movies is I really loved moments and tones and feelings in a scene and I loved creating those but I never really had great stories to string them together.

I had done some flimflam movies but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.

I really don't have favorites I'm just a fan of movies period.

Frankly I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

I still like the run and gun action movies and how truly dangerous it can be to make these films.

In life single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies they are given imaginary power.

I'm not an admirer of action movies. I just think Oh my God it must be so tiring.

My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.

I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies.

Even the worst Bond movies there's something to love about them.