If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it.

Whether youre making a million dollar film or a $100 million film there is never enough money, theres never enough time.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

All of my films are based on personal experiences and beliefs. Many of my heroes are my spokespeople - and some are not!

A theatrical on a tight budget really only becomes about generating critical reviews for you and your film, not revenue.

I definitely don't intend to only make films about Nigerians or Africans. I want to make films about people, any people.

I dropped out of college and ended up making this feature film I wrote when I was 19 with some friends. It was terrible.

To be honest, I was just honored to be in the same festival [ Raindance Film Festival's ] as Johnny To and Dominik Moll.

I'm in film school, so I really have to sock away my money for school, tuition, and so on, and I really don't have time.

I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made.

I never ever thought that I would be in a Bond film, ever, which is weird because I grew up loving these amazing movies.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.

No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

Certainly, a lot of the films I've worked on have ended up good movies, but they haven't always been the best experiences

I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.

Even if you only play a cameo in a film, it becomes a part of you and you get butterflies in your stomach on release day.

A lot of times passion projects or films are difficult to make because they don't have proven directors attached to them.

I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.

The beauty of doing film is that you construct whatever you do block by block and you can build something that will stay.

Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.

I don't want anyone to expect anything from any of my films, I just want them to see it and then tell me what they think.

There is an amount of abstraction in my movies, and sometimes they don't really understand it until the film is finished.

'The Assassination of Jesse James' remains one of my favorite films that I've done. You know, it's still labeled a loser.

I have not seen a film as powerful, surreal, and frightening in at least a decade unprecedented in the history of cinema.

I hear filmmakers saying, 'I wanted to make to make a film about this issue, or this theme,' but I never start like that.

I love doing short films because they're much more intimate and there's far less waiting around than on the bigger films.

E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.

When I saw 'Talk to Her' for the first time, I was crying out loud because I couldn't imagine that I was doing that film.

Faith is what I live by in everything that I do. I strive to give glory to God in every aspect of my life, even my films.

Each one of my films is personal; each one of my films is emotionally autobiographical. And I like directors who do that.

Never again work in the same conditions in whichyou made your first film. It's good to take risks, but not thatmuch risk.

I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.

A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.

In my first film, Five Corners, I played a very scary, violent crazed character, and it exposed me to a lot of directors.

I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped.

The film argues to the young that the old were young once, too, and contain within them all that the young know, and more.

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

A film - especially when it's a personal film - is going to hit somebody or it's not. There's nothing you can do about it.

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.

My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

I take care of myself because I'm an actress and I have to take care of my body as it's my tool in order to give in films.

I do have a strong desire to make films that will take the audience to some uncharted places both tonally and emotionally.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

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