I saw some Pixar movies like 'The Incredibles' and thought, 'This is extraordinary. These are some of the best movies I've seen.'
There's always been product placement in Bond movies.
Historically, Vietnam movies have been profitable. All of them. 'Platoon,' 'Full Metal Jacket,' 'Apocalypse Now,' 'The Deer Hunter.' You're looking at movies that have been not pretty successful, but very successful. The foreign numbers have been extraordinary.
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play.
I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
I guess television is so much on the word. It's so much closer to playwriting - the scale is more just about the voices and the internal lives. Movies, it's a very different canvas.
All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus on working in interesting movies without having to worry about supporting myself.
Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.
In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.
The love of Christ is not a pretend love. It is not a greeting-card love. It is not the kind of love that is praised in popular music and movies.
I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do.
For sure, without question, the writing is better on TV pound for pound than movies because the businesses have changed so much. So all the great writers would rather work for TV, and they do.
It's scary how effective movies can be. It's a very powerful medium that I think is sometimes abused.
Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.
I have been pregnant in so many movies it's ridiculous.
Before 'Y Tu Mama,' I did 16 movies that only my family got to see because I invited them to the premiere.
I didn't get my hair cut for two movies, and it got a little long. I'm going back to a... not a crew cut. Back to, oh, about a Presbyterian length.
Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.
When I first started in the business, it was hardly ever done. But today, it almost feels like studios go out and preview movies knowing full well that they're going to use the information they get to go back and reshoot.
