It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies.
I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.
A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.
There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.
In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them.
My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.
I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.
Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me.
And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.
I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.
After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world.
If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the cinema was a world of fantasy. I had always been in love with it.
Making movies is all about instinct.
There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.