I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

When I was a kid I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.

Maybe when I stop making movies I'll understand my work better.

My normal cycle for movies is eighteen months and each part is separate.

Even in the former Soviet Union they have good copies of my movies.

I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.

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

Movies will end up being this esoteric art form where only singular people will put films out in a small group of theaters.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15 I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

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

I love making movies but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

If I have to produce movies direct movies whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules I will. If I have to break them I will.

I love European movies and I kind of grew up on European films.

I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane Chandler Jim Thompson and noir movies like Fuller Orson Welles Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights.

I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.

And the VCR did the same thing: the movie industry thought nobody would ever watch movies any more.

I've never been interested in action movies. Definitely not interested in sci-fi.

In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.'

I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.

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

I'm a big kid I'm a kid at heart so I still love the classic family films such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake but the original. It's still one of the best movies hands down ever made and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline.