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

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 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.

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

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 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 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 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.

I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.

I used to love to go to the movies - I'd see two in a row. A few times I even snuck into the second movie after it started... now that I think about it, that's kind of like shoplifting! Needless to say, I still love going to the movies, but I don't sneak in anymore.

I've always wanted two lives - one for the movies, one for myself.

I've always wanted to do a space movie.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

I've seen many, many movies over the years, and there are only a few that suddenly inspire you so much that you want to continue to make films.

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.

I wasn't a kid who moved out from Iowa with aspirations of becoming a famous star - I was intrigued by the idea of filmmaking and by the idea of what it would be like to play a character in a movie.

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman.

I wish I knew how to quit you.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

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.

I want people to know that movie stars live a normal, middle-class life.

I was particularly stunned by the casting of Cruise, who is no more my Vampire Lestat than Edward G. Robinson is Rhett Butler.

I was part of a group that had a cinema club so every week we would project two or three movies on 16 or 35mm.

I watch a film and the most important thing to me is what I think of the movie.

I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees.

Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.

I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels.

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

Keep your eye on your inner world and keep away from ads, idiots and movie stars.

Ladies and gentlemen, my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!

Look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun.

Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

Jack: Where to, Miss? Rose: To the stars.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters

Most movies are made today for teenage boys. Once in a while a good one comes along.

My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

Movie music is noise. It's even more painful than my sciatica.

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.