I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

When I was a kid going into the movies you weren't force-fed information everywhere you looked about what the movie was going to be.

I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance it doesn't have to be a creature.

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.

I always always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that when I got a mini-series I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

I just love movies so suddenly you're political about movies and that's dark. It's just not fun when something you love becomes calculated.

I write plays and movies I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.