We all do that thing which is the best in movies - we relate.
I seem to have a knack for picking movies that go on to be cult favorites.
I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant.
So one of the most unique things on screen in American movies today is everyday behavior.
I like subtitles. Sometimes I wish all movies had subtitles.
Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.
It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.
I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.
I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.
The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.
George Raft may or may not have gone both ways, but he was very sensitive to what they said about him, and it was one factor why he decided to play all those gangsters in the movies.
I should only have been as lucky as Valentino, in the movies - I didn't have to be a gigolo. In real life.
So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.
There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.