Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think.

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Most of us do not consciously look at movies.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

I turned down some movies that were quite good. mainly on the basis of taste.

I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set.

And like everybody else, I like the Rocky movies, but if you look at them again you can see all the misses, but the intensity of it, but that wasn't what this is.

If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s.

In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.

If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.

So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

It's true, I did a lot of great movies, and I'm happy. It was what it was, and now I think all of that has fed into where I am now, and I think it has taught me a lot.