I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

I am more of an old black and white movies fan.

I like simple things. I like to sneak in the theatre and watch movies. I'm a movie buff.

If I did any movies I'd have to take a break from singing, because I'd want it to be really good.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

I know that in order to be considered successful, you're supposed to do two or three movies a year. I only work once every year-and-a-half, sometimes two years. I have children to raise.

I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.

That is why it's so fun to make movies... you get to do lots of things you would never do in your normal life.

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.