Ford Fairlane was one of those movies that was so much fun to make that it was bound not to be a big hit.
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I did not think that a good movie was the equivalent of a good stage play, any more than I thought an automobile ride was as exhilarating as a drive behind a spirited horse, nor a trip by steam as soul-satisfying as a voyage by sail.
The movie wasn't a hit, although it did well in Europe for some reason.
Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.
I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.
If I tried to somehow wrap my head around the fact that Francis Ford Coppola directed my first movie, there's never a slot into which that ever fits in your mind.
Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.
I want to make films that people will say, 'That movie rocked!'
When I did 'Shaft', I was so happy to be working and to have been a star of a major motion picture, I had no idea or concept of where it was going to go, and it turned out to be this huge film. That was the icing on the cake.
Traffic is one of the most powerful films to come out in recent years. It blew me away.
'Clash Of The Titans' is one of the biggest movies I've done; it was certainly the most effects I've worked with.