When you see something that is technically sweet you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.
It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.
I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start...
I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors on...
James Cagney Steve McQueen I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the...
All that running around in my underwear put money in my pockets. I can focus...
And anyway it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in...
When you kill somebody in the movies it matters whereas in literature it...
When I started doing movies every crew member was older than me.
I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did...
I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for...
Everybody gets typecast in movies but you have to make wise choices. I'd say...
I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with...
I use to watch like maybe three or four movies five days out of the week. I...
I didn't know this about myself but when 'Pirates of the Caribbean' came out...
Well the thing about great fictional characters from literature and the...
I manage to hide in my movies.
All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do...
The first two movies I directed failed when I was 21 and 23 and that was...
American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths...
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas....
The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
When I was a kid I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and...
Maybe when I stop making movies I'll understand my work better.