“I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.”
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“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.”
“I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.”
“Now on Friday nights, if I want to go hang out with friends, I go hang out with friends. If I want to stay in and be in the hot tub and have people over to watch movies, I do that.”
“I'm a big kid, I'm a kid at heart, so I still love the classic family films, such as the great Warner Bros film 'Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory' - not the remake, but the original. It's still one of the best movies, hands down, ever made, and of course that goes back to the ingenuity of the characters and the storyline.”
“You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.”
“I'd maybe done about 12 movies when I decided that this was what I was going to do.”
“I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.”
“Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.”
“I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.”
“I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.”
“Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways.”
“The only reason why I would like to be accepted? Because if your movies don't do well, after a while you don't get to make any more movies.”
“My favorite characters are the ones that are the most successful movies.”
“Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.”
“My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.”
“I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to.”