I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.

What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.

You never know when you read a script how it's going to turn out because so much depends on the collaboration between people. If I'd been in some of the movies I turned down, maybe they wouldn't have been a success.

Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me. And now it's kind of become a way of life for me.

I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.

I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.

Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make.

I make movies for grownups. When Hollywood starts making them again, I'll start acting in them again.

I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

Movies either work or they don't work and they're either funny or they're not and we work very hard. To achieve that kind of work is really kind of delicate stitching.

I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.