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Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word.

Show me an actress who isn't a personality and I'll show you a woman who isn't a star.

'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation.

Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile.

Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.

Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.

Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees.

Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.

The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me.

Sometimes, I think I could have been a major movie star with the vast mansion and staff. I look at my Volvo and think it could be a limousine. I think of the roles I turned down. But then I wouldn't have had any children.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.

The biggest thing people tell me is that I'll be jaded real soon and that the allure of filmmaking will lose its magic. Not necessarily the fame, but that special thing you create onscreen.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

The manner in which Americans ''consume'' music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

Then I went through a whole bunch of crap with my lousy movies and pop records. I had people behind me kind of steering me in that direction, but it wasn't really my bag.

The plot of a movie is its motor. It is not an accident that people call pictures 'vehicles' for stars. A vehicle has to move. A plotless story is like an expensive car with a wonderful body design, luxurious seats, upholstery, headlights (production, direction, cast) - and no motor under its hood. That is why it gets nowhere.

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of.

The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

The difficulty with the present state of affairs is that there is no legislation on the sources of funding for the Polish film industry. There is no legislation concerning filmmaking. And, there is no legislation on television that would be beneficial to filmmaking.

The fact is, when I wrote 'Juno' - and I think this is part of its charm and appeal - I didn't know how to write a movie. And I also had no idea it was going to get made!

The great thing about movies is that they're collaborative. And the worst thing is that they're collaborative.

The great thing about the movies ... is-you're giving people little ... tiny pieces of time ... that they never forget.

The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.

The only thing worse than watching a bad movie is being in one.

The problem with being a film actress or a movie star is that people see you so huge that somehow you're visually massive or somehow you're in some removed space, which is a television or wherever. It somehow takes your humanity.

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didn't have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored.

There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that trickle down effect.

There's such good people out there where there filmmaking world is alive.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

The sorrow of not being movie stars overwhelms millions.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

There was nothing to react to except wind and trees [in Cast Away]. It was like making a silent movie.

These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

The truth is that everyone pays attention to who's number one at the box office. And none of it matters, because the only thing that really exists is the connection the audience has with a movie.

The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment.

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

This was truly guerilla filmmaking. We shot out in the middle of nowhere in a place called Delta Flats, where basically every day was some new minor catastrophe.