Well the thing about great fictional characters from literature and the reason that they're constantly turned into characters in movies is that they completely speak to what makes people human.

I made about 28 movies and I think about five of them were good.

So yes there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big sweeping epics like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai ' 'Legends of the Fall ' 'Blood Diamond ' 'Glory.'

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.

I'm just happy to be a film where for once I don't have to worry about my hair because my managers are always complaining about my hair looking depressing in my movies. Which is true. I mean it's true.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

I like movies about failing.

I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

Besides the fact that I make movies there's nothing interesting about my life at all unfortunately.

I don't know what has happened to movies but lately every movie is at least 20 minutes too long. It used to be that if you were three hours long it was because it was epic - a movie about Gandhi something with very important subject matters.

Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance tension and release.

I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work my movies. You become an actor to act.

It's too expensive that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not.

I want to make movies about my country from my point of view.

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

I want to do movies that I'm proud of where my kids at some point can see and I can feel comfortable sitting there watching it with them. And just that move people. That make people feel a little bit better about themselves when they leave the theatre.

Movies have to handle time very efficiently. They're about stringing scenes together in the present. Novels aren't necessarily about that.

Audiences don't ever disappoint me in the sense that movies I feel really good about they usually feel really good about too.

Here's the thing about movies all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not I don't care how much money you spend on it or how big or broad the film is or who the actors are in it eventually it's all coming out of the box.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.

I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses shoot guns have adventures.