I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

It's something I never dreamed I'd be doing making movies.

I had a daughter who was 9 years old and I had the feeling I wasn't going to be a real parent if I didn't quit making movies for a while and spend time with her. I also felt that I'd made enough movies and said what I had to say at the time.

I like making movies for myself and my friends and people with my sensibility.

People wrestle sometimes making movies and I think that conflict is a very essential thing. I think a lot of very happy productions have produced a lot of very banal movies.

When we shoot 24 there are so many things I have to worry about from the script to technical things to my performance that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season which is like making 12 movies.

I've had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.

The movies have got more corporate they're making fewer movies in general and those they are making are all $200-$300m tent-pole releases that eat up all the oxygen.

It seems to me that one thing people do over and over again is try to figure out how to get married stay married fall in love how to rekindle all this stuff. It seems to me to be a pretty eternal theme so I don't know if you can get typecast from making movies about men relating to women. It seems to be what is going on on the planet a lot.

I'm not mad about movies there are too many people involved in the making of them and they lack a definitive creative focus.

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

I don't want to criticize any other designers but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

I was always raised on cowboy films and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.

The next thing I knew I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

By going to the movies and because of other things too going to college making a wide variety of friends moving around traveling I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

You know what I like to do? I love waking up early making them breakfast taking them to school having time in the morning with them. With six kids it's like a reality show.

At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches but mostly making stuff up for three hours that's enough. I can't do any more. At the end of the day I might tinker with my morning's work and maybe write some again. But I think three hours is fine.

I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.