“Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies.”

“3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning.”

“There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.”

“I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.”

“People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus they're not dead.”

“Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.”

“Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?”

“It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.”

“My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.”

“I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.”

“I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.”

“It just proves good movies don't need 100 million dollars to be good.”

“Ever since 'Lassie' and 'Old Yeller', I won't watch animal movies. Animals in movies always die.”

“Movies are something people see all over the world because there is a certain need for it.”

“You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.”

“I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.”

“I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.”

“I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!”

“I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.”

“You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.”

“I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.”