3 December 2020 Jennifer Hudson I want to be around for a long time, singing and making albums and movies.
3 December 2020 Lizzy Caplan I really unfortunately don’t have tons of hilarious Sundance stories, because really I am not the biggest fan of hanging out, but the reason why is because I never go see other people’s movies and I think that’s the way to do it.
3 December 2020 Kevin Costner I’m glad movies aren’t going to please everybody, they can’t. But what they have to be is recognisable. I don’t equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.
3 December 2020 Christian Bale I don’t get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I can’t help but feel like this reduces it a little bit.
3 December 2020 Leonardo DiCaprio I didn’t know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role.
3 December 2020 Shia LaBeouf I was always raised on cowboy films, and then when I could start making choices about the movies I wanted to watch I found myself wanting to watch gangster films which were slightly more sophisticated than the baseline stuff that was in westerns.
3 December 2020 Ellen Barkin Skinniness is not your friend when you’re over 40. I’d like to gain a good 10 pounds, but I did always have a fat, round face that plagued me when I was young. When I started to make movies, I couldn’t look at myself.
3 December 2020 Jet Li I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
3 December 2020 Harrison Ford I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you’ve lost human scale.
3 December 2020 Harvey Weinstein We didn’t care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie – that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we’re getting the same results in more subtle ways.
3 December 2020 M. Night Shyamalan The thing that’s protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
3 December 2020 Jason Reitman I’m not Michael Moore. I think Michael Moore wants to tell you how to think. He wants to give you answers. I make movies to raise my own personal questions and not to give answers.
3 December 2020 Channing Tatum My bar for being successful is being able to do movies that really mean something to me and being able to make a living off of that.
3 December 2020 Anna Deavere Smith Movies, as evidenced by a chorus of protesting and celebrating Americans, influence broader trends.
3 December 2020 Shirley MacLaine I’ve made so many movies playing a hooker that they don’t pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.
3 December 2020 Bil Keane On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can’t tell what you’re going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.
3 December 2020 Sam Mendes I wanted to keep exploring… I’m not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
3 December 2020 Paul Thomas Anderson I had the standard movie geek childhood, because for as long as I can remember, all I wanted to do was make movies.
3 December 2020 Alexander Payne I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make… In fact, I don’t like the movies I make very much.
3 December 2020 Oliver Stone One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.
3 December 2020 Jamie Bell I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies they’re so beautiful to look at. It’s such a shame we don’t make them anymore. Although, I don’t know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.
3 December 2020 Seth Rogen Trying to constantly get yourself into movies is extremely stressful and sometimes just impossible.
3 December 2020 Kevin Smith 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.
3 December 2020 Ron Fournier Movies such as ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’ in 1939 to ‘Dave’ in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen – decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness.
3 December 2020 John Lasseter I love movies that make me cry, because they’re tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards: how did they do that?
3 December 2020 Jonah Hill I’m sure a bunch of 15-year-old kids would way rather I do ‘Superbad 2’ than ‘Moneyball.’ But I would love to do movies like ‘Superbad’ and movies like ‘Moneyball.’
3 December 2020 Robert Rodriguez I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I’ve just grown up with that model.
