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Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.

Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.

Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.

He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a great source of regret. I love spending time with him. He's always very open and effusive. His interest in you is genuine.

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

Have you seen the film Histoires D'Amérique? It's also a mixture of humor and monologue, and it shows how the Jewish humor comes from drama and tragedy.

Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.

Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.

Honestly, I do spend most of my time between films trying to get the next one made.

Honestly, I don't go out of my way to see animated movies. I'm mostly influenced by.. the films I tend to like are the small films, small personal stories. With characters you can believe.

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

Horror films don't create fear. They release it.

Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?

Horror films have been with us forever, so you can't say I originated that in any way, but it sort of brought back a classical way to make a horror film.

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch.

Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.

How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

I actually find in America, there's a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That always intrigues me, because that doesn't exist in the same way in Britain. And I imagine it would be worse. In terms of the sort of class, and the sort of snobby, slightly on the back-foot thing Britain has. But it's much more prevalent in America. I'm really intrigued by it. I don't know why that is. But I'm aiming to break down those barriers by being in a Shakespeare film and a Smurfs film within six months of each other.

I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.

I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.

I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.

I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because there is a restoration going on right now for the film through UCLA and Sundance.

I always approach film as a fan.

Hollywood is no longer the top. I love going to the cinema. I've always adored the idea of being in great, epic films. But they just don't really exist anymore. It's a real shame. There's great auteurs that create small movies, but it's really hard for anyone to see them, and for them to make any sort of money, or for them even to be made in the first place.

'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.

I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

I always figured that once I wrapped a film, then anything beyond that is none of my business. If I can avoid seeing the final product, then all I have in my head is feeling good about the experience.

I always find live shows on film kind of boring. Even my favorite ones, I kinda zone out for most of it. It's just so different seeing a band in the flesh and then watching a film of it, even if you have a hundred cameras and it's shot from every angle. There's just a communal, visceral thing that never translates very well.

I actually met a producer of Stanley Kubrick's who told me that Kubrick had never even thought about doing Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer. He just read it and didn't want to do it - that's it. There's a myth around that he said it's not filmable. But he never wanted to film it.

I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.

I always feel that crime films are about capitalism.

I always feel I could be like Toni Collette, going between big studio things and indie films. That would be feasible.

I also love a film by Ang Lee - "Lust, Caution.

I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they'll reference a beautifully obscure film from the '50s or '60s or '70s, and I've not seen it.

I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.

I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me.

I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.