Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me only thrust onto greatness.

The movies I made early on may not have been great but they were all commercially successful.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more that'd be helpful.

People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks and small budget movies have no perks but what is the driving force of course is the script and your part in it.

Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out you know what I'm saying you can only be out so long without work you start getting antsy.

When I got depressed I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

I've choreographed all of my movies.

I really like children to watch my movies.

Even when I was a little kid I always said I would be in the movies one day and damned if I didn't make it.

I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say I still love going to the movies but I don't sneak in anymore.

I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18 and did a few other movies during some of the summers.

I do love the films I've done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we're trying to make people laugh and I'm very proud of that.

I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.

I made two movies before The Police had a hit record: I did Quadrophenia and a film called Radio On.

Well everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.

I don't want to make movies for kids and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings that was the extent of it.

Now on Friday nights if I want to go hang out with friends I go hang out with friends. If I want to stay in and be in the hot tub and have people over to watch movies I do that.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

They say I can open movies and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys.

I think it's better to be involved in one or two movies a year.