Jan de Bont Quotes

Any adaptation - and I've done three in my career. I did 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo' and 'Coriolanus.' It's important to find what makes it a movie as opposed to just a film presentation of a stage play.

With something like 'Tomb Raider,' it's very intimidating to step into the boots of Lara Croft.

'Scarface' was a tremendous undertaking, and I'm one of those who really feel that no one could have done it like Brian De Palma.

I do want to direct a movie from horseback one day.

Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter films and was the family comedy king through the '80s and '90s - 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Home Alone,' etc. - has acquired rights to 'The Cypress House' and is working on the script himself, with intent to direct.

I hooked up with director Jacques Audiard for this film called 'Rust & Bone' with Marion Cotillard. I loved that experience so much I'm truly sad that it's over!

Directing 'Fifty Shades of Grey' has been an intense and incredible journey for which I am hugely grateful. I have Universal to thank for that.

I'm a big fan of film for one reason: because it is visual.

I think that 'Halo' is a hard property because they don't need to make a film. They make far more money out of the games so why risk?

Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien's torchbearer on screen.

When you produce and direct, your movies are different to you. They're not just something you act in.

Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.

There's an excellent movie we have on TCM called 'It Happened on Fifth Avenue,' which was originally going to be directed by Frank Capra... but just before he was going to start working on it, he came across this story called 'The Greatest Gift.' And that turned into 'It's a Wonderful Life.'

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.

As long as 'Tomb Raider' will have me, I will be their Lara Croft.

You shoot yourself in the foot when you think, 'We have to get a good scary movie director to do a script by another scary movie writer.'

I've always wanted to write movies - I always used to tell my mom that I wanted to be a director.

Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.

My goal is definitely to direct features - action movies, that's my favorite genre. So I would love to do the 'Halo' movie.

It's important to be a part of good films.

I started off as an assistant director in Mani Ratnam's 'Ayudha Ezhuthu' and 'Yuva.'

I wanted to be a movie director. I was just obsessed with watching movies and camera shots and directors. I read autobiographies and stuff of directors.

For the film 'Saat Khoon Maaf,' which was adapted from my story 'Susanna's Seven Husbands,' I did collaborate on the screenplay. I even took a small role in the film, of a priest.

I would wanna be in the sequel to 'He Got Game.' I would definitely want to be like, in the part two of that movie.