I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.

I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19 yukking it up.

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared but they're not going to get hurt.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

I love movies that make me cry because they're tapping into a real emotion in me and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?

Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

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

People feel the worst film I made was 'Jack.' But to this day when I get checks from old movies I've made 'Jack' is one of the biggest ones. No one knows that. If people hate the movie they hate the movie. I just wanted to work with Robin Williams.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think 'Gee there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.

I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.

When newspapers started to publish the box office scores of movies I was horrified. Those results are totally fake because they never include the promotion budget.

Steven Spielberg is unique. I feel that the kinds of movies he loves are the same kinds of movies that the big mass audience loves. He's very fortunate because he can do the things he naturally likes the best and he's been very successful.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

Quite often - a lot of the work I had done had been extensively with women. Most especially in the theater but also quite often in the movies. That has its own delights and maybe pitfalls too.

I like to direct movies but I don't like to goof around for eight years talking about it.

I like very much to do movies.

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting.

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

I don't know why but I've always been a sucker for roller coasters in movies.

I'm not an especially highbrow person but I have always loved small quirky edgy movies.

People don't have these tidy little redemption arcs in reality the way they do in movies.

I do not quote my own movies. I think I would be pretty insufferable if I did.