For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you... →
Penelope Spheeris
The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique... →
Steven Spielberg
Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.
You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is... →
When I felt like an outsider, movies made me feel inside my own skill set.
I feel I'm all over my movies. I know my movies are all over me.
I love history, so I do a lot of movies about history.
I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.
Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.
I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to... →