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.

As a kid I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult I really don't watch much horror to be honest.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy and we should never lose that.

Part of the reason why movie bosses are so obsessed with crime movies is because they know that world and the criminals. And that's what they are - they would not hesitate to act illegally to achieve profit and gain.

I'm terrible at horror movies by the way. I get scared so easily.

Luis Bunuel made great movies.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter different kinds of movies.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy in drama in horror movies in different kinds of movies.

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years in between movies I do a retreat.

I watch movies occasionally and I watch documentaries. Virtually nothing else.

I think more than writers the major influences on me have been European movies jazz and Abstract Expressionism.

I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal like the 'Saw' movies.

When I go into making a movie personally I don't try to bring other pieces of movies with me.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

I'm always working on stuff. But they never materialize. I'm always working on movies and TV shows.