“There are movies where we are interested in seeing people's lives without agreeing with what they're doing.”

“Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.”

“Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.”

“Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.”

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

“In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.”

“'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.”

“Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that.”

“I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'”

“All I do is go to the movies.”

“My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.”

“People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful, but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.”

“I just love movies.”

“I'm a weird big guy. Doing rapping, doing movies. Do a lot of stuff. But always do things the right way.”

“Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.”

“I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.”

“What do I geek out about? What am I? Hmmm. I love movies. I watch movies. I like big, sweeping epics, like Ed Zwick stuff: 'The Last Samurai,' 'Legends of the Fall,' 'Blood Diamond,' 'Glory.'”

“All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.”

“My body looks like 30 but my face looks like 50. But I cannot walk bare-chested in the streets. I like to do these movies to challenge myself physically.”

“I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.”

“By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.”