I am deeply honored to be making 'Life Itself,' a documentary on the life of Roger Ebert, and to have had the full cooperation and enthusiasm of Roger and his wife, Chaz.
Steven Spielberg is going to release a biopic about Abraham Lincoln next year. Right, that's a good way to honor Lincoln – by sending people to the theater.
All my movies are copies of Hollywood, some of them pretty trashy copies. All filmmakers copy from Hollywood.
I wanted to make a movie that was kind of a tribute to the way I feel when I watch a John Hughes movie.
I think there is a feeling of old Hitchcock in there. There are parts that are tributes to some of the old great horror movies and the old great filmmakers.
If you're a director and you pay homage to Japan, you're definitely going to remember what you've learned from watching the Japanese masters' films.
Julian Schnabel painted a picture that he dedicated to my character in Rumble Fish. It was called The Motorcycle Boy. I remember when he brought it over to me at the Mayflower Hotel [in New York] years ago. This is when you and I knew each other.
I'd like to really make the Montgomery Clift biopic happen.
