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I just adored working in London. It was in London where I first had the idea of making a film.

I just decided to make a movie. I had no training, no film school, but I had been to a lot of movies.

I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocuous that I supposedly said on Twitter before I was even on Twitter. So then I had to get on Twitter to say: 'This is me. I'm on Twitter. If there's somebody else saying that they're me on Twitter, they're not.'

I just feel that I enjoy the work more than I ever have... or just as much certainly... I enjoy making films behind the camera equally to making them in front of the camera on all those years. I just enjoy it, that's all. I've been lucky enough to work in a profession that I have really liked and so I figured I'd just continue until someone hits me over the head and says "get out".

I just like comedy in general. My film work, which has been at times more dramatic, has been satisfying. But I never feel quite as good and as light and blissful as when I'm doing comedy.

I just like voicing films in general. I do a lot of documentary work and it's a short hop really to narrating a character, especially if you're on film and you're there in a visual way. It sounds obvious, but voicing an animation really focuses you on the way that you're communicating through your voice. It's a very specific ability that you need to be able to have in order to pitch it just right.

I just saw Memento. It's very, very good. I watch a lot of French films.

I just think that the collective experience of going to see a film is something you can't recreate.

I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton.

I just want to make good films on my own wherever I can.

I just want to make sure I'm contributing good films to movie history rather than being famous just to be famous.

I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.

I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.

I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

I knew that I wanted to be a film actress and I never watched TV. I was always too busy.

I knew nothing about the independent film industry. I didn't know much about the industry itself. All I knew was how to watch movies, how to enjoy them, how to hate them, how not to like them.

I know from the past, critics often say my films don't have any plot, that kind of thing. I'm used to being told, "Yeah, it's slow and has no plot.

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing 9 to 5 was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it’s so rarely in the hands of women.

I know I'm incapable of orchestrating an entire film.

I know, of course, that by using film we can bring in other previously unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.

I know that some great actors can transform, and that's fine. But I come from the school of thought that people put a version of themselves in their films.

I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors, the costumes, even the hair and makeup. Editing is thrilling. Everything to do with films is absorbing - everything but the money part, the business. But I'm deeply glad I've had that experience.

I know that sounds contradictory - you're going on a journey, but once you know who your characters are, you become more disciplined and you film less and less.

I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.

I know what I'm talking about and I've never been over budget, in 70 films.

I know we didn't make an anti-Semitic film. This is what the Gospels are. And it's none of my business what other people think of me.

I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime.

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

I learn more with each film, and I gain confidence in my style of working. But at the same time, each one is a new monster.

I like, as a director and a spectator, simple, direct, frank films. Nothing disgusts me more than snobbism, mannerism, technical gratuity... and, most of all, intellectualism.

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film.

I like boring black and white films with subtitles. I'm basically a drip.

I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks

I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer. Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong? Those universal questions, I enjoy.

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

I like doing the promotional work. It's part of the film's process. Cannes was very wonderful to premiere.

I like film soundtracks. I like the soundtracks better than the movies.

I like films that continue to spin your head in all sorts of different directions after you've seen them.

I like going on location for films.

I like doing personal films, after doing a bigger movie, I enjoy doing smaller, intimate films.

I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen.

I like films where the music and the sound design, at times, are almost indistinguishable.

I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

I like making films about old people because they are repositories of amazing stories that they tell well. And they're incredibly good telly.

I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well.

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.

I like stories that begin with characters. I like to be engaged and moved by the characters in the story. I want to be moved. I want to leave the cinema and think about what I've seen. My sensibility is quite eclectic and it doesn't matter if they are small or large films, I just want to make good films.