I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.
In anything I've ever written, all the characters sound like me, which I don't think is a bad thing. It makes sense. But I had always admired filmmakers who made movies that didn't sound like them at all.
Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that.
I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act.
I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me.
I'll be honest with you. My kids don't watch my movies and never have. I can maybe name a film one hand that they've seen, actually, all the way through.
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
I honestly don't love the Cheech and Chong movies, I've got to say.
Luckily, I think, I never really wanted to be famous, I just wanted to make movies.
I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something to the cinematic community.