Movies are our cheap and easy expression, the sullen art of displaced persons.
For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.
The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.
I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.
I was devastated by Gene Wilder's death.
I was 12 when I decided that I wanted to see myself on the big screen.
When I was younger I saw a movie called 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' with Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Those two actors and that movie was my inspiration to want to be an actor.
'Border' was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.
Cinema is like dream.
When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything.
The movies have never been a big deal to me. The movies are the movies. They just make them. If they're good, that's terrific. If they're not, they're not. But I see them as a lesser medium than fiction, than literature, and a more ephemeral medium.
I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.
Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
Film is a truly magical medium.
You know, they just don't make big movie stars the way they used to, maybe because the system has changed, the studio system, but it's sad to see people like Jimmy Stewart go, all the giants of the past.
All of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.
Film is something that came later into my life.
Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946.
Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.
Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star.
I was inspired by Cary Grant. I wanted to do the kind of work he did and to work in light-hearted roles, in comedies.
My life, my reading, everything about me revolves around the cinema. So for me, cinema is life, and vice-versa.
Eleven years in films is a long time.
I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.
Those old westerns are the movies I grew up with on Saturday afternoons at the theater.
