“In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.”

“With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.”

“I happen to be interested in watching a face age. I like faces of women aging so it makes me personally quite sad. That's a beautiful gift from God. If people don't want to see that anymore then I won't be in anymore movies.”

“James Cameron has always been way ahead of the curve in terms of the use of technology in his movies.”

“I do enjoy animated movies.”

“The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.”

“I kind of realize that I have a tendency to choose the kind of films I watched when I was a kid and would go home and pretend with my friends that we were in those movies after we saw them.”

“I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.”

“It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.”

“I'm not looking to lose anything. I'm looking to continue making movies.”

“Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.”

“I really care about this stuff, I care about movies, and you just have to be strong and don't be stupid freedom of choice is a big responsibility, and I'm lucky enough not to have to just take any movie to pay the rent, so there's no need to be greedy.”

“There's too much down time making movies. That leads to boredom. And that leads to trouble.”

“Reality TV looks more like America than movies do.”

“We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was.”

“I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.”

“Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.”

“I think we're very complicated and we're capable of all kinds of things, and movies don't reflect that.”

“I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.”

“I would do anything for a part, nearly anything. Being in movies doesn't mean being pretty.”

“I work constantly but I work at a lot of different things. You know, I run a theater company in New York, I direct plays, act in plays, in movies, so I try to keep it eclectic.”