People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

There is no set way of getting a role - you don't give an exam, score well, and then nail a film.

The actors I admire are character actors.

It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.

I would love to do a 'Vicky Donor' kind of movie.

Perhaps not unusually for a popular film produced over three decades ago, there have been a dizzying parade of corporate characters trading rights to 'This Is Spinal Tap' through the years. Yet our...

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.

I'm eager to find the perfect film to shoot during my hiatus from 'Suits'.

Acting is always going to be number one, but what I learned in film school, I want to make that happen too, so I'm going to actually start working on my own.

I think 'Pan's Labyrinth' is genius.

Making a movie like 'Felony' is hard work because you're really putting your own ideas on the screen. You can't hide behind some other person's script; you're saying, 'This is my brain, and I want you...

You can act in five, six, or seven films in the time it takes to direct one film.

The kinds of films I like are the ones that take their time. If you reach an emotional pinnacle too early on in a film, that's kind of it. I think, as in real life, when you're getting to know...

I've been in movies where the movie doesn't come together but the role comes together, or the movie comes together but the role doesn't come together or something like that. Something misses. It's...

Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away.

Cinema basically examines a personality first and the body afterward.

Unlike 'The Nutty Professor,' the hero of my film is romantic. 'Badhaai Ho Badhaai' is a family film, while 'The Nutty Professor' had a lot of double-meaning dialogues.

I've made a lot of stupid action films. But when we made The Matrix, we saw that people wanted more than that.

The film 'Richard's Things' was my first time in front of a camera. It was scary but great fun.

I would love to do a film of the heartland.

The real stars who have dedicated their services to the film industry are Salman Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Aamir Khan, and Akshay Kumar. I do not come in this league at all.

As long as I can back up what I say with film and statistics and experience, I can say whatever that film tells me.

That is one reason so many of the Japanese pictures are not good, they cannot spare all the footage necessary for that bow, which is repeated over and over again.

Luckily, 'Rakta Charitra' did well in the South and I started getting a lot offers from the Tamil and Telugu film industry.

I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to...

My favorite Wes Anderson movie is 'The Darjeeling Limited,' because I have two other brothers, and I just feel that connection so well. All of his films have something so great and unique about them,...

I grew up watching those blaxploitation movies. Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree, Jim Brown, Pam Grier. For the first time, I saw 'The Negro' get one over on 'The Man.'

My favorite film is 'The Dinner of Cons,' a French movie.

My goodness, what a blast it is filming 'Woody.'

Viola Davis is just one of those actors who is never bad in anything. She could be in an awful film but you'd never come away from it saying she was bad.