“I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.”
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“I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean.”
“I'm not one of those actors where filmmakers that I admire ask me to be in their movies. I meet them at parties and they're nice to me, but they never ask me to work with them.”
“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.”
“In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental world, but it's not a conversation, it's a monologue. It's always from one point of view. 'If we don't tell our own stories, no one will tell them' is my mantra.”
“I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching 'Nosferatu.' Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.”
“I'm fighting the label of 'Black' actress simply because it's very limiting in people's eyes, especially people who are making movies.”
“The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.”
“I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.”
“Film spectators are quiet vampires.”
“I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.”
“If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.”
“I've only been to high school on TV and in movies. I've never actually been to high school.”
“If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.”
“I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.”
“I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show.”
“I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies.”