“I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.”

“There's an electrical thing about movies.”

“I don't really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.”

“You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.”

“I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.”

“My movies have always done pretty well in the UK - 'The Matrix' films did very well in this country and I do like the crews here and the people we're working with here.”

“Movies about space raise those questions of what we're doing here, and that inevitably introduces a spiritual dimension.”

“I never read. The paper or anything. I watch a lot of movies, and TV series and stuff. But I never, never read.”

“I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.”

“I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies.”

“As much as I hate his movies, Oliver Stone has an aspiration I admire, and that is that he wants his art to be part of what makes and changes public policy and cultural practice.”

“I cast unusual people in my movies.”

“Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.”

“I don't really care where movies come from as long as they're worth making.”

“You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.”

“When they make a woman's picture, they treat it like a 'woman's picture.' In the '40s, they didn't treat Joan Crawford movies like that, but as the big movies of their year. I'm upset that there's no 'Terminator' with a woman in Arnold Schwarzenegger's role. Because that would make just as much money.”

“I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.”

“I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.”

“I really don't have favorites I'm just a fan of movies, period.”

“I don't wanna abandon my identity as LL Cool J, but at the same time, I had to figure out how to let people know that I'm really serious about making these movies.”

“There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.”