What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American pop culture signifiers to raise laughs out of those who will appreciate the references; it revels in more cheese per square inch than a soul food diner.

LACMA has the imprimatur of art, and that's a big leg up.

It's true that as Mr. Chan makes more American movies - and gets older - we will never again see the kind of fistfight choreography that the star would devote four months to shoot.

Scene by scene, you can't help being impressed by 'Mean Girls;' it's like a group of sketches linked by a theme, with some playing much better than others.

His work isn't all glower. Even though he hasn't smiled in a movie since the underrated 'Proof' in the early 1990s, Mr. Crowe is given to a hurt swallow when he's uncomfortable and to a look of suffering in his eyes.

Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case.

I have a strong art-history background.

For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.

Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?

'Beatrice Cenci' was an amazing film. If it were released today it'd win Best Picture. It's so well done, it's so contemporary, and the filmmaking is so smart.

Lucio Fulci is such a massively underrated director. Everyone knows him as the Godfather of Gore.

I saw 'Alien' when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars, and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.

When someone throws up while watching one of your movies, it's like a standing ovation.

I have the infinite galaxy from '2001' as my screensaver - so if I space out while I'm writing and it goes to screensaver, I can just stare off into the stars.

A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years.

The film, 'Aftershock,' for me is really about how the minor problems in life that we think are so major ultimately mean nothing when a tragedy happens, when a real problem happens.

When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.

I think horror should never be safe, whether it's violent or non violent.

Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly.

It's very flattering to feel like you actually helped create a sub-genre.

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!

'Troll 2' is one of the rare sequels where you don't have to waste time watching the first one, since the films have absolutely nothing to do with one another.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.