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Right now, my job is that I’m like an ambulance chaser. I’ve got to look for movies with white guys falling out of them.
I didn’t grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
All my movies are achingly personal.
I was making a lot of 8mm home movies, since I was twelve, making little dramas and comedies with the neighborhood kids.
I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can’t ever remember a time when I didn’t.
I just grew up watching a lot of movies. I’m attracted to this genre and that genre, this type of story, and that type of story. As I watch movies I make some version of it in my head that isn’t quite what I’m seeing – taking the things I like and mixing them with stuff I’ve never seen before.
My nominee for Best Picture of the year – maybe the best picture ever, because it’s essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies – is Christian Marclay’s endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece ‘The Clock.’
I don’t really have a schedule of when I want to show my children my movies.
Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the ‘Thomas Crown Affair’. It’s, it’s, I don’t know, but Faye Dunaway comes up a lot in that thinking. It’s the subtlety of sexiness. The moment you try to be sexy, then it’s not.