I love John Waters. There is stuff in it that is beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

I will probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I will try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she is still doing the same thing.

I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.

I do like to move and get physical in my movies.

I am an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He is somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.

I do not want to just do independent movies and I do not want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

I am the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That is pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

I do enjoy animated movies.

You do not want to be photographed? You do not want to be known? Then you do not need to be out there peddling movies.

I have not deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it is probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I was not offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.

I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.

I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I do not look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just did not appeal to me.

I am proud of all the movies I have made. They are not sequels, they are not franchises. And the reason I pick my films carefully is that I do not want to spit on my life. I like to think of myself as more than that.

When I make a film I am away from home for two to three months. So I want my kids to look at my films one day and say, I love his movies, I love his choices-because he loved them.

There are a lot of things that come to bear on movies now that I do not think are good for movies. They are trying to appeal to the biggest demographic and, when they do that, you sometimes flatten out.

I am glad movies aren't going to please everybody, they can not. But what they have to be is recognisable. I do not equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films.