Movies were never an art form they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there and it's still evolving in different ways.

Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies nobody would cast me as a romantic lead but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can.

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made there's no question.

Most movies once the action starts there's no more characters. You say a couple of dumb lines and then there's just explosions until the end.

There are some movies that I would like to forget for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.

I'm not mad about movies there are too many people involved in the making of them and they lack a definitive creative focus.

I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think 'Gee there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do.

You have to read scripts and audition and develop relationships. It takes a long time to develop a body of work but over the last 25 years I guess I've done that many movies. In hindsight it may seem effortless but there's a lot of work that goes into it.

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more that'd be helpful.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt really. In the movies now so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama there's no device It's just about a human being.

I knew that there were black people in Africa of course unfortunately because of movies such as 'Tarzan.'

Even the worst Bond movies there's something to love about them.

You know those movies where the people in the audience are screaming 'Don't go in that door!' because you know the killer is there? Well it is the same thing with this debt. We know how this ends.

Basically there's not enough sex in movies that's it. I'm trying to say it people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural guns are not.

I'm doing 'Les Miserables ' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like 'Come on let's do a movie/musical.'

I've seen many many movies over the years and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.