You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.

Even if you do a great performance, if you have a weak link in the film, that's all anyone remembers.

I developed a group of friends around me that were all as crazy as I was about wanting to make films.

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

How can I make a movie about the violence of the police if the police aren't going to let me film it?

My dentist said to me the other day: I've enough problems in my life, so why should I see your films?

I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

I don't do films because they tell a particular kind of story, I do films with stories that touch me.

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

Born And Bred' is pure escapism, and where we film is one of the most beautiful places in the country.

I've never made any concessions, so I am 100% responsible for my films. This makes me feel very proud.

When I go and make smaller films, I actually never think about them being made for a smaller audience.

I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.

I think, for me anyway, music and film is where you can really transport yourself to another universe.

In the comics, Supergirl is quite, um, buxom...so I hope people won't come to the film expecting that.

I see a film as a puzzle, with a beginning, middle, and end, but I like to start at the end sometimes.

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

I love films for the fact that it is like working under a microscope. It is sort of like a laboratory.

If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies.

All my films have always been released in the autumn, maybe because they're more melancholy to people.

You would almost think it would be the opposite, but making a film sort of made me freer in my acting.

I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.

We look at it as the multiverse. We have our TV universe and our film universe, but they all co-exist.

I've always felt that I've made films, period. I wanted to leave the "ghetto." And here I am, I'm out.

I can't watch my movies and get into them because as soon as I see myself I get taken out of the film.

I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.

Critics have never been able to discover a unifying theme in my films. For thatmatter, neither have I.

You have to be involved and relate to the characters in order to make a film that is true emotionally.

When you're on a set it can be very tedious and slow. It's just not as big as when you see it on film.

My films have always been considered the benchmark in action. I have a big responsibility to shoulder.

Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film.

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

I'm probably much more influenced by film-makers and painters than I am by other songwriters or poets.

I like when you watch a film and you feel like you're a part of somebody's life for an hour and a half.

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

Make films. And don't listen to anybody, except those who tell you "yes" and who are ready to help you.

It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film.

When I was preparing for the film for tree weeks, with David Cronenberg, I had a lady friend come over.

But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?

Each film does bring a new set of personalities and it can turn out great or it can turn out not great.

To have a film in America means precisely nothing if you don't have a distributor who stands behind it.

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.

In TV, film, and music there's a lot of snobbery, and I don't like it. I've never been a cultural snob.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

What I do feel is that 'Up in the Air' is the most indicative film of 2009. It is the portrait of 2009.

My good friend Josh Bibby happens to be a pro skier and has used my music in 2 international ski films.

After my debut film, I was doing reality shows and hosting so it was not that I had nothing else to do.

I don't think much of most of the films I made, but being a movie star was something I liked very much.

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