“My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.”

“Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.”

“I didn't know this about myself, but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out I realised that I didn't enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didn't react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead.”

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

“I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'”

“The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that.”

“I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.”

“Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies - as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.”

“Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.”

“Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.”

“I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.”

“Ultimately, to have a career in movies, to a certain extent, certainly in England, you can't sustain a career in just English movies.”

“I don't make movies because I think audiences will want to go see them.”

“Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.”

“Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.”

“So, yes, there's nothing I love more than listening to directors talk about their movies.”

“I don't direct movies for a living.”

“I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.”

“Listen, I think movies serve many different purposes, from those movies that are frivolous and just an entertainment, to movies that just go to exploring the complexities of the human soul. Everything is valid if it's done with honesty and dignity, and I actually do both of those types of movies in my career.”

“I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.”

“I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.”