Simon Helberg Quotes

Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.

Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.

The first person to make me realize there was someone behind the film was Steven Spielberg.

For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.

Steven Spielberg was my idol growing up. I knew that all of his movies have a very specific message and point of view, and the always are really epic.

I'm the Steven Spielberg of Malibu.

I was lucky enough to work a little bit with Steven Spielberg.

The movie that made me want to make movies was "Blue Velvet."

Stanley Kubrick is one of the geniuses of this century.

Someone like Roman Polanski comes with a lifetime of achievement, cinematically.

If I've seen the movie, it means it's an influence on my own filmmaking. Every movie has a reflection in 'Night Watch.'

The guy that made me wanna make movies... and this is off the wall-is a guy named Michael Pal, the British director.

Working with Woody Allen was extremely gratifying. He has such a vast catalog of great work that doing one of his films was somewhat unreal.

I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?

I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.

I think Polanski's an amazing director.

I love David Fincher and I think he's a genius.

With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those movies wore that on their sleeve.

Michael Winterbottom is one of the great directors of this century.

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.'

Steven Spielberg was a huge part of my childhood, like everyone's, I guess.

Once I had seen 'Journey to Italy,' I knew that, even if I were never to make movies, I could make them.

Mike Leigh is my all-time favourite writer/director/creator.