Cop Movies Quotes

I don't watch cop movies much. I TiVo shows. I watch every Larry David show.

When I did 'Bird,' it was a surprise to some people, first because I wasn't in it and second because most of the films I'd been doing were cop movies or westerns or adventure films, so to be doing one about Charlie Parker, who was a great influence on American music, was a great thrill for me.

Most cop movies and TV shows are fantasies.

I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.

To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.

A couple of my favourite cop movies are 'I Love a Man in Uniform' and 'The Long Goodbye.'

I can remember when anything further downtown New York than Canal Street was risky and the whole area still looked like a '70s cop movie location; when the original loft-owners were more dash-than-cash, artistic types.

I've always been fascinated by Baretta and Donny Brasco, and other undercover cops in movies.