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Travers's Mary Poppins was a natural phenomena, ancient as mountain ranges, on first-name terms with the primal powers of the universe, adored and respected by everything that saw the world as it was. And she was a mystery... philosophically, I suspect now, the universe of Mary Poppins underpins all my writing.
When you do one movie at a time, if one goes crazy and becomes successful, your life changes. But you can step back and catch your breath.
Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.
It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it.
I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pictures movie so it's probably going to have some publicity. Then you see a billboard and it's like, 'God! I'm on a billboard! ' It doesn't hit all at once, it kind of unravels itself and it's still unraveling.
Without wonder and insight, acting is just a trade. With it, it becomes creation.
All my good movies, nobody sees.
I decided to make 'Captain America' because I realized I wasn't doing the film because it terrified me. You can't make decisions based on fear.
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
It seems like the studios are either making giant blockbusters, or really super-small indies. And the mid-level films I grew up on, like 'Back to the Future and all those John Hughes movies, the studios aren't doing. It's hard to get them on their feet.