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Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.

Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.

Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.

Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.

Boldness, sensuality and an unapologetic way of showing things, that is part of my films.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film

Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.

'Brookline' was a very small film and it was only here for a very short time and I wasn't able to catch it.

British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond.

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.

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

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

But Mary Elizabeth felt different. She kept saying it was an "articulate" film. So "articulate." And I guess it was. The thing is, I didn't know what it said even if it said it very well.

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects.

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

By its very nature, film is supposed to be an accessible medium to everybody.

By far, the content of Canadian films. You're able to push the envelope in ways you can't in the U.S., I find. But also, because of the budgets and everything, it's all condensed, quick, and short.

By nature, I think I am a pretty private person, and that is what is hard even doing interviews for films that I really love doing, because in some ways, it diminishes the experience that I had.

Certainly what constitutes a stage actor, what constitutes a film actor, I don't even know what that is. And both things are very accurate, in a sense. In terms of people's needs to concentrate on race, I wonder if it's completely necessary, but it's not something that is so dynamically relevant to me that I feel it should be one thing or another.

By the time you arrive at Sundance as a filmmaker, you've been living with your film intimiately, and scrutinized every frame, and probably aren't happy with - or at least I'm never happy with it - and you've seen it in the roughest of states, and you lose perspective, really.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.

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

Certainly my films are cinematically unusual, and quite contemplative in their pacing compared to conventional films, but I think overall they are quite engaging, accessible, and even funny.

Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film.

Chemistry on film is like chemistry in real life, it's either there or it isn't.

Clearly any film company that makes a film is always going to talk about sequels particularly if they see something as being successful, which Werewolf was.

Clive [Oppenheimer] and I figured out that I'm the only one probably in the film industry who is clinically sane. I say that as a joke, but there's a grain of truth to it. I'm not a stupid daredevil who jumps into the crater of the volcano to get the closest close-up, I'm not one of those. And you have to be aware that you have a crew with you and you are responsible.

Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?

Cinema Paradiso' is a fantastic film, I love that.