Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
I mostly gave away what I had from the James Bond movie.
The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.
There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.
If you have to have a job in this world, a high-priced movie star is a pretty good gig.
I was always attracted to science fiction movies
Its a big problem for American movies that all their movies are produced to be global.
Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.
Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey.
A Movie That Costs Only $1.6 Million Doesn't Have to Be a Cultural Event to Turn a Profit.
Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.
If you dress like a movie star, you have me.
All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.
The absence of him is everywhere I look.
But the absence of him is everywhere I look. It's like a huge hole has been punched through my chest.
I don't have the strength to stay away from you anymore
When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking.
There are a lot of movies made for nobody.
And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.
I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.
I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe.
I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.
Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume.
I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.
