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.

In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.

All I do is go to the movies.

And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.

I was always enamored with TV shows and movies. But you didn't grow up in my town and turn into an actor.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

I think movies are great and I have a great time making them but they're not what keeps you warm at night, or what's ultimately the most important thing in anyone's life journey.

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.