You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

In Paris when the picture came out [Casablanca] they weren't too pleased with it. They didn't like the political point of view. The picture was taken off immediately and was never sold to television. A while ago it was brought in and opened in five theatres in Paris as a new movie. They had a big gala opening where I appeared and people were absolutely crazy about it.

Night was a wonderful time in Brooklyn in the 1930s. Air conditioning was unknown except in movie houses and so was television. There was nothing to keep one in the house. Furthermore few people owned automobiles so there was nothing to carry one away. That left the streets and the stoops. The very fullness served as an inhibition to crime.

I'm looking for the perfect paintball movie.

I did a movie in Esperanto.

It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do how to do it when to do it how to feel about it and how to look how you feel about it.

We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.

Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Becoming emancipated at 14 my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school so I didn't. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company Flower Films and producing movies. Now that I'm almost 30 I would like to try other things in lie. I'm crazy about photography and I want to take an art history class.

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

I got the regular call that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine and we had to see everything.

Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

One of my movies was called "True Lies." It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

So one way or another I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who by all laws of logic should never have made it. At each stage of my career I lacked the experience.

Advertising is a racket like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

It sometimes feels like a strange movie, you know, it's all so weird that sometimes I wonder if it is really happening.

And I believe that you never be limited in what you do so I like to do movies I like to do television.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

If you go to a bad movie it's two hours. If you're in a bad movie it's two years.

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I never had as a child. So you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.

Every time I've made a movie over the years . . . there was a lot of confusion between who I am and who the character in the movie is. In this picture there was no way anybody could make that association. The lead character (played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is this gorgeous troubled highly sensitive character. There was no way anyone could confuse me with anyone in the picture.

I remember being on film sets when I was younger and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too ' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.

I love doing normal things - movies shopping going out with friends writing reading taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

The point is that life for me is not going to be the way it is for everyone else. I have a fog machine and movie lights in my bedroom.

You know what your problem is it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

If my life was a movie no one would believe it.

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

Well I always looked at Mulan as a movie about a lesbian coming out.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

For me there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can using only their hands and feet make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie I wanted it to be authentic.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

I'm a movie maker but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say oh God I've got to see my friends 'cause I'm too content being by myself.

Movies are all about plot. Theater even if it's story heavy it's about ideas.

In Torch Song I did that character almost non-stop from 1978 until I made the movie in 1987. Then I had some failure which also colors how you react to doing other things.