Putting something in a movie because it’s in the news doesn’t make it political to me. If you’re not going outside the same old, same old, if you’re not pushing the envelope, then you’re not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.
I honestly love any good chick flick, as long as it’s a good movie or pretty funny. ‘Love Actually’ is a no-brainer.
I think there’s really only been one successful video game adaptation, and that was probably ‘Tomb Raider.’ Whether or not you thought it was a good movie, it was successful financially.
As far as entertainment, ‘The Right Stuff’ is a good movie. As far as a documentary of the early space days, which they purported it to be, it is not at all.
‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand’ and ‘Used Cars’ were absolute failures at the box office. Complete disasters. I learned some sad news: it’s not an automatic thing that, if you make a good movie, everyone wants to see it.
If you have a good movie in hand and it is successful, you gain confidence to experiment.
If you want to buy a good movie, you’ll buy a good movie. If you don’t want to buy a good movie, you’ll buy a ‘Twilight’ movie.
I’m a huge Woody Allen fan. Good movie, bad movie, it doesn’t matter – I just like his movies.
I don’t know why I am liked. I think it’s probably because I’ve just been normal, not been flash or tried to hurt anybody. I’m not one for going out and going to nightclubs. I’d rather stay in and watch a good movie.
I have a certain kind of a taste for what will make a good movie or a good play or theater.
At the end of the day it’s got to be a good movie, it’s got to be a funny movie, and it’s got to make people think, ‘Hey, I couldn’t have spent my time any better.’
I don’t know if ‘Crash’ is a good movie or not because I didn’t set out to make a movie. Really, what I wanted to do is more of a social experiment.
A word on ‘Kingdom of Heaven:’ if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you’ll see why it’s such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it’s the film I’m most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly.
I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don’t.
If you have a script that’s not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who’s not good, never are you going to have a good movie.
Whether it’s a movie I’m in or not, if there’s a good movie, and it’s low budget, and you know everyone’s done it just because they were passionate about it and they cared for it, if it has any kind of audience, it’s just a wonderful outcome.
If I can’t finish a screenplay, if I can’t get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it’s not a good movie for me to make.
I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail.
I’m strong-willed, but that doesn’t mean I can’t work with people if we’re all in the mission of trying to make a good movie.
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