22 Quotes by Andrew McCarthy

And I know when I was younger, and still, I always marvel at what I feel is different from what I'm told that I'm supposed to feel.

It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie.

I thought I understood the story very well, because I've lived with it for so long. But movies change and take on a life of their own once they start to be made, and you have to keep your eye on the real ball, not the ball that's in your head.

The price of self-empowerment is what I call it. Somebody who thinks outside the box.

In doing everything, from coming up with the ideas and putting them on paper till doing the final edits, you are always thinking the next three steps, you're always thinking what next, what next, what next?

So I wanted to explore all points of view of that, not just the girl's but his point of view as well. Only by directing it could I explore all the points of view.

Like in 'Pretty in Pink' for example, people said, 'Oh, he's so sensitive and lovely in that movie,

I was so hung over for that whole movie ... I'm thinking, 'God, I got a headache. I am just dying here. I got to go lay down.' But on film it came across a certain way.

He knows the energy you expend from trying to get from point A to point B to point C. And when somebody lies and that throws your trail off a million miles from where it ought to be & the lie is a lot more consequential.