The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
I like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.
I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals.
My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
I grew up on Mel Brooks films. That was film to me until I got a little bit older and realised there were other kinds of movies.
If we want to talk about the movies that have made an impact in what I do in the action realm - Bruce Lee in 'Enter the Dragon.' I've watched that countless times.
I did a movie where my character was obsessed with Bruce Lee, so I learned everything about Bruce Lee, read everything, watched his movies.
When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
One of my gripes about movies is that people take them so seriously, and the moneymaking aspects are so brutal.
There are the movies that should never be made and resist being made until, through sheer brute force, somebody finally makes it. And then, there are the movies you can't stop from being made because they just want to be made.
I'm a 'Harry-Potter'-till-I-die kind of person. Those are the movies I grew up on. I was like, 'Why would I want to watch any other movies when there's 'Air Bud' and 'Harry Potter?'' It makes no sense why I have to expand my movie-viewing experience when I have two really wonderful films.
My dad was a low budget film director. I grew up as a kid making movies, based on the love of seeing what my dad was doing.
I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.
I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.
I didn't really start doing stuff until I was 8 or so, but I was an extra in a bunch of different movies, and I just really took to it and really enjoyed it. I kind of bugged my parents to give L.A. a shot, and they were just super-supportive.
I watched a lot of old movies, and a lot of Carol Burnett and Andy Kaufman.
I was watching Burt Reynolds movies when I was a kid, going, 'That's what I want to do.'
My dad traveled a lot, so I only usually saw him on weekends, growing up. His favorite actors in the world were Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds. If Clint or Burt had a movie out, we would go to the movies. He didn't like movies, generally, unless Clint or Burt were in them.
I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
