Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious.

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

One of my movies was called 'True Lies.' It's what the Democrats should have called their convention.

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves.