Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.
If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.
Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.
I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. Not to date myself, but cable was just coming on. I had terrible territories, and they would give me $25, if I got somebody to let them come and just put the little cord in their house.
'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.
Let's keep the chemists over here and the food over here, that's my feeling. What do I know? But that is a big aspect of fast food is their ability to artificially taint the colors and the smells and stuff to stimulate appetite.
I have a very well organized closet.
In my sophomore year, a kid told me that the secret to getting women is to play really, really hard to get. I followed his advice, and I didn't have so much as a date that year.
A man always looks good in a dark suit.
The tragic element of a character is always intriguing I think.
I have always been interested in the concept of ruin.
Everybody's family has problems.
You don't get to pick your partners in families; you get assigned a seat at the table.
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with this idea of opening a restaurant back in Indiana on a little pond. The guests would order their dinner and then take a little boat out with a colored flag on the front of it. When the matching color of the flag on their boat went up on a flag pole, their dinner was ready!
Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene.
Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.
The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.
Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.
I don't consider a lot of actors that I really admire movie stars.
We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.
