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.

It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too but for me they're like entire movies. And they show them on cable.

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done people still recite lines to me even 20 years later.

I was never into the popular school or clique or anything. Then I started doing movies when I was in high school so then I got popular. Then the girls paid attention to you who didn't before.

I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days.

Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

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 love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.

I like the George Romero films which were really great social satire movies really twisted.

Movies are movies and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense.

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

There are some movies that I would like to forget for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

I don't know many women who can relate to Sharon Stone and the kind of movies she does. I don't know a lot of guys who can relate to Tom Cruise's movies because they're on a kind of fantastic level.

I like movies I can relate to.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I'd make one that I can't get yelled at for.

I'm not looking to get away from anything. I like what I've done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies but this is incredible.

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore and I love Halloween movies.