Movies were never an art form they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there and it's still evolving in different ways.

Now if you are like me - if you are like practically anybody in America - then you probably hold some negative opinions about the French based upon movies rumors recent headlines unfortunate run-ins with Parisian waiters or... you know... all that unpleasantness surrounding the Vichy regime.

I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.

Growing up I didn't watch movies.

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

I think these movies are as much for people of that time as for people who weren't born. For people who weren't born they see how leaders must act under a crisis situation not trying to be re-elected or not trying to check polls that they go from their gut check.

Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies nobody would cast me as a romantic lead but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture including TV magazines movies and video games.

If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life that would be one thing but I don't want to just make spy movies.

I always wanted to make movies.

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

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

You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation popular hits came out of shows and movies.

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

Ultimately to have a career in movies to a certain extent certainly in England you can't sustain a career in just English movies.

I want to be in movies that stand the test of time.

Obviously I'm attracted to heavier movies.

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made there's no question.

You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue the way the people played off each other - the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.

Most movies once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.