“Cinema is entertainment, and people go to the movies because they want to feel good and forget about everything.”

“I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.”

“If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.”

“Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.”

“I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.”

“I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.”

“But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.”

“I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.”

“I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.”

“My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.”

“Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better.”

“I honestly don't love the Cheech and Chong movies, I've got to say.”

“Every great film should seem new every time you see it.”

“Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.”

“The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.”

“We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.”

“I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.”

“I've done performances in movies that I was immensely proud of and the movies didn't take off like a rocket at Cape Canaveral, it didn't take off.”

“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.”

“I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.”

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