I think romance is a tool comedy is a tool and drama is a tool. I really just want to tell stories that challenge the viewer move people make you laugh perhaps push an idea about being open-minded but never settle on a genre or an opinion. I hate genre. I like movies that are original in their approach.

Being the son of a filmmaker you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies but as a life.

And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies and so I like to try each of them.

I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.

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

I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done people still recite lines to me even 20 years later.

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

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.