Christopher Nolan's astounding third Batman feature, 'The Dark Knight Rises,' represents the true maturation of the superhero movie - and provides the key to understanding the bottomless craving moviegoers have for these films, 34 years after the Christopher Reeve Superman gave birth to the genre.
Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.
Well, I look at it like this: When you go to a restaurant, the less you know about what happens in the kitchen, the more you enjoy your meal. If the soup tastes good, everything's cool, and you don't necessarily want to know what's in it. The same thing holds true with movies.
I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.
I was always attracted to science fiction movies
How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time.
When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.
I can direct breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I take pride in my kitchen, but I'm not going to direct a movie.
The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne' creates a self-excavated utopia, and I love that idea, that message.
Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.
You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.
Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.
From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.
Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.
We are the movies and the movies are us.
After I do a big movie I get offered big movies. But I always do the weirdest indie.
Growing up I didn't watch movies.
Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.
Americans just don't know what being a movie star's all about.
Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.
I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.
I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
There's an electrical thing about movies.
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