The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting that you have a problem.
I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.
Every time I make an American film I just trust the American director and American writer. Myself, I would never make this kind of film. For me, those kinds of films are ridiculous. They don't make sense.
I hate interviews - but you have to do them.
The movie business is a big gamble.
It only hurts when I'm not laughing.
I'm very pessimistic about that, no matter how hard we may try. The Chinese market is huge, but out of last year's $2 billion box office, $1. 8 billion was taken in by foreign movies, and just $200 million by our own movies, no matter how much we have learned of their techniques, or their good practices. The Hollywood movies imported into China are all good movies; does the U. S. make lousy movies? Yes, too many lousy movies, but the imports are good films, so how can they not be box office hits? They're all hits.
I like it to stay very organic, and to remember a personal story behind all my subjects.
You were joking about the whole please and thank you thing, right?" "Meant every word. " A little light danced in his eyes and he very deliberately said, "Baby. " No. He laughed. "You should see your face right now. " "Don't call me that. " "Would you prefer 'darling'? Or maybe 'cupcake'?" He winked.
I disagreed with the way the court applied the Second Amendment in Heller's case, because what the District of Columbia was trying to do was to protect toddlers from guns and so they wanted people with guns to safely store them. And the court didn't accept that reasonable regulation, but they've accepted many others. So I see no conflict between saving people's lives and defending the Second Amendment.
I've done a few remakes now, as you know. And my philosophy is, you see the original film once, and that's it. You have to do whatever you can to shut it out, because you don't want your performance to be tainted. You don't want to fall into the trap of comparisons, basically.