Richard Donner made great movies. Seminal movies. The Academy, though, and we have to be careful here, should recognize popular films. Popular films are what make it all work. There was a time when popular movies were commercial movies, and they were good movies, and they had to be good movies. There was no segregation between good independent films and popular movies.
I like really good movies, but I can enjoy a really bad movie, too.
All my good movies, nobody sees.
I know what a good movie is.
I like being part of good movies and telling stories that mean something to me. I also like playing characters that I look up to.
Animation, for me, is a wonderful art form. I never understood why the studios wanted to stop making animation. Maybe they felt that the audiences around the world only wanted to watch computer animation. I didn't understand that, because I don't think ever in the history of cinema did the medium of a film make that film entertaining or not. What I've always felt is, what audiences like to watch are really good movies.
A good movie humanizes people.
No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.
Watching a really good movie excites me, because it makes we want to get up off the couch and go shoot something and act in a scene.
If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
The main thing is to do each project the way you want, and if they find an audience, that's terrific. And if they don't, there's nothing you can do anyway, so don't let it concern you that much. An awful lot of good movies have done badly and an awful lot of bad movies have done very well. There are no real rhymes or reasons for it. Sometimes the stars don't always align right. But if you've done the best you can, you feel pretty good about it.
I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie.
The truth is I made a few good movies in the '50s, then went into freefall.
If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.
I just want to make good movies. Honestly, the only difference for me with this stuff is that there is more people on the set.
Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly.
I don't think I've made good movies. I've just made some movies more disgusting than others.
One thing we haven't mentioned is something everyone should understand very clearly. Look at the budget that was invested in 'Avatar': who in China has that kind of money to spend on making a movie? So we as Chinese filmmakers should work together to make Chinese movies that can compete as best we can for Chinese audiences, not make lousy movies, but make the best we can for that audience. Concentrate the money, the talent we have on making good movies [for China].
I just wanted to make a properly good movie, and not beg for the love of the fans.
Putting something in a movie because it's in the news doesn't make it political to me. If you're not going outside the same old, same old, if you're not pushing the envelope, then you're not doing anything. A good movie is a political thing.