The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.
Pauly Shore
In my 30s, it wasn't cool to like Pauly Shore movies. It was cool to like them when they came out, then it wasn't cool.
I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing... →
When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved. And it's hard, man. They brainwash you to think you're doing the... →
People don't learn science in movies. You don't go to the movies thinking, 'I hope I learn some quantum mechanics this afternoon.'... →
Seth Shostak
Despite the impression you may have from watching too much TV, movies are not about reproducing reality. They're about telling stories.
A few years after 'Melrose Place,' when the luster of 'Melrose Place' wore off and what was left was just the stink, and I was just... →
Grant Show
I took an acting class with Louise Lasser, Woody Allen's first wife and co-star in many movies. I've done some other indie films, if you look... →
Gary Shteyngart
After three major movies, I was like, 'Oh, I guess you're supposed to get a publicist?' Girls that are in the business now that are... →
Elisabeth Shue
People love to talk about how the '70s are the only time they made movies about characters, and adult movies, and complicated people. But in the... →