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I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.

I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago.

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

I'm sure I can make a movie that doesn't feel like a seventies movie! But the truth is, that's my favorite era in American filmmaking. To me, those were the great years.

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.

I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when one of us is at a movie the other does not want to see.

...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.

I never thought about becoming a professional singer, but I am in touch with Bono about releasing a musical movie. It will be about an Irish band during the '70s who are looking for fortune in Las Vegas. I should play the singer of the band but I don't want to sing in front of anybody.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

I never wanted to be a movie star.

I start from scratch with each movie; I wipe the slate and I certainly don't rely on some bag of acting tricks I've amassed over the years.

In the theater, you go from point A to point Z, building your performance as the evening progresses. You have to relinquish that control on a film.

Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.

Is there a movie I think I should have won the Oscar for? Yeah. All of them.

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.

I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

I think filmmakers want their movies to be seen.

I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience.

I think I am too old to be doing teen movies. I am just kind of annoyed, because you have all these teen movies coming out with usually either Lindsay Lohan or Hilary Duff doing four of the exact teen movies over and over again.

I think I read films having grown up around the pre-production and post-production aspect of the filmmaking medium, a lot more than most young people who are in acting would have experienced. I do think about scripts in a different way. I can't just read a script as an actor. I don't know how to do that.

I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film... But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.

I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.

I think movies should illuminate and teach, but that's for a certain genre.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there's always a question of taste.

I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one.

I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.

I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.

I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit.

I think there are advantages to different scales of filmmaking. You wouldn't want to do just one thing.

I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit

I think there's a real joy in going to see movies when you discover them yourself.

It's just lovely to be involved in a movie that does go back to the basics - characters and great writing.

I touched emotions I've never tapped in my entire life. I've heard people say, 'I hope this movie doesn't glamorise drugs.

It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made.

It's dangerous to think too much about how a film will be received. Filmmaking is not a popularity contest. Some would disagree.

It's kind of like family. I can't say that we go out to lunch and to the movies every day with each other. Everyone's fully grown adult women with lives.

It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.

It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.

I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

It was a very good experience. It wasnt just to make a movie, it was my life. I was employed at The Lord of the Rings for a year and a half.

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.