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Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

On a film set, we're all glorified troubleshooters, really, as directors. It's not if a problem arises. It's when.

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice.

Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

One day I received a call from my agent, he asked me to put myself on tape for a film that was being cast in LA. I was thrilled at the possibility alone.

One feature film that I am most proud of is Forrest Gump which starred Tom Hanks. Once you are called out to work in film, yes it is a small industry and your name gets around pretty fast.

One film critic back in the early days said "It's a pity Mr. Harryhausen didn't animated the actors, too.

One friend said, "Donnie Darko movie was weird!" And I thought, "Hmm. I don't think we're as good of friends as I thought." It's not like I disliked him for it; it just meant we weren't on the same page I thought we were. Because I can't imagine watching that film and not being moved to tears.

One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

One hopes for that type of result but you just never know what factors will work in your favor. I think I just was concentrating on making the best film I could under the circumstances I was given. That's all I could really do.

One important thing, just being a film composer in general, is to have a great respect for the art that you're working on - a great respect for the film and a great respect for the filmmakers.

One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.

One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.' I'd love to do some really silly comedy someday.

One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.

One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by Southwest. If I can help get their stuff out there, then great.

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.

One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.

One of the proudest things for me with this film [The Fourth Phase] is that year after year we put ourselves right out there making it and no one got seriously injured.

One of the positive aspects from my point of view in terms of lifestyle doing film is that I can say "Well, I'm now going to have three months where I'm just going to hang out and be with the family".

One of the things I've learned over the years is that you only do what you can do as an actor. You do the best job you can, but you have no control over so many elements that are going to determine the outcome of that film. I never pay attention to what happens after.

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.

One of the things I did early on in film was over-enunciate and talk too loud.

One of the things that got me thinking during therapy is that they say that fear is only thoughts, and nothing will happen because thoughts will never be real. And my thesis, or joke, in film Antichrist, is that they really do become real.

One of the traditions of film acting is a sort of mumbled realism. Be minimal, and do less. 'Even less than that.'

On film sets I can see everyone, and I really still find that so difficult.

One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.

On film, it's really nice to see that transformation from the beginning, reading the script, to know where he starts and where he ends, and be able to plan for that.

On film you put all your energies into a single glance.

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.

On film Vanilla Sky: You're going to get the full experience of what love is.

Only after awhile. After it came out and people began to engage in discussions about the social reflections of the film that I realized it had an importance I hadn't thought of.

Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy . Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience.

On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him.

On the American side, some of the movies that I watched when I was a kid, like E.T. or The Wizard of Oz, those are films that changed my point of view of what film could be, of what you could do. Those are the ones that I remember were incredible when I was younger.