I worked so hard for so long - I did a lot of movies. I also worked a lot when my kids were smaller before they were in school.

I did try to get a few of those teen high-school movies but they just didn't like me. I guess I wasn't a certain type.

But I don't think there has ever been anything written on the nature of violent man as deep and as thorough as Shakespeare's Titus. I think it puts all modern movies and modern exploitations of violence to shame.

Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller' I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.

Movies are about escape.

You just never know when movies are going to take off or not. The lucky thing about this was that it didn't cost a lot of money and therefore there wasn't loads of pressure on me.

The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal the British director.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast and enjoyable and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that they never translate exactly.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

I don't think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky briefly in the '90s and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped.

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.

I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you given the way movies are reported constantly.

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.

I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.

I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors on small movies and big movies.

James Cagney Steve McQueen I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire to be in them.

All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.

And anyway it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head.

When you kill somebody in the movies it matters whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

When I started doing movies every crew member was older than me.

I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.