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I think the beauty of the film industry is that if another person tries to become another person or act like another person or imitate another person, they don't really get too far. When that person starts to realize who they are and what they can bring to the table, they start to blossom and grow. With that, it's not so much me looking towards my predecessors who have paved the way in the industry - it's more getting inspired. I get little bits and pieces of what I can take from any and everybody.

I think the biggest misconception about experimental film in general is that it is always difficult and inaccessible.

I think the British industry is set up to support British film, if we make films that enable them to support it. If you don't make a commercial film, distributors can't get behind it. If they don't get behind it, the film doesn't do well.

I think the endeavor is to just make your film and then hope it travels as much as it can.

I think there are few films out there that take motherhood seriously.

I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film

I think the relationship between print and film is symbiotic, it's more about evolving and complimenting your existing content. The two are very much interconnected.

I think the thriller aspect of this film [Fifty Shades Darker] is what excited me most.

I think you can lose yourself more easily in a film than in the theater.

I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

I think you have to take the whole idea of wage equality out of the film industry.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

I thought I'd never do film, let alone television. I was a diehard theater nut.

I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.

I thought Pan's Labyrinth was one of the greatest films I've ever seen, just pure artistry. Guillermo Del Toro is just really something, this guy. And he's a real mensch: down-to-earth, funny, huggy, and terrific.

I thought this was pretty timely and it was pretty interesting [to film in Snowden].

It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.

It is clear that through the partnerships between Global Cool and the International Indian Film Academy, Indian cinema has the potential to provide great leadership by exciting its enormous and enthusiastic audience to do their bit to save the planet

It is deeply moving, powerful, and disturbing. A film that must be seen.

It is more difficult to manipulate with film than, for instance, video. The problem with video is that it gives you a thousand possibilities.

It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

It is that rare film [Moonlight] that comes along once in a while that catches the zeitgeist. This movie is that. I certainly have my fingers crossed that it is. Everyone needs to see this movie.

It makes sense that somebody told you that you made the film from your perspective as a father.

It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.

It just seems like that because I do a lot of independent films that don't get to the mainstream.

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

It never crossed my mind to make a film about Muhammad Ali or the Queen or any of them! They just come out of the blue.

I took two years away from making films to write a novel.

I trained more than anybody ever in a golf film ever made - my swing is pretty hot.

I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be.

I try and make non-fiction films that feel like fiction, so I'm always looking for the subtext and that's what really excites me.

It means that if they misunderstood Comfort and Joy, they misunderstood my other films.

I tried to dance in my earlier films, but it was more like struggling to stay afloat once you are thrown into the water.

I try to be after something that is deeply reverberating inside of our souls, some deep echo from - even from prehistory. What makes us humans? How do we communicate? Where are we going at this moment? Something for an audience where they can step outside of themselves, where they can be almost like in ecstasy of truth, some sort of deep illumination. And that's what I'm trying in documentaries and in feature films.

I try to see my films just once. It's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.

It's always a problem with television and with films, you always shoot things out of sequence, so you just take your best stab at every moment. You can't really - you'll drive yourself crazy if you dwell on the negative aspects of it or your shortcomings.

It's a certain kind of immortality, because those Disney films do go on and on and on.

It's all movies for me. And besides, when you say documentaries, in my case, in most of these cases, means "feature film" in disguise.

It's all just one film to me. Just different chapters.

It's a kind of honour when I see how many people are imitating the style of how I make films.

It's always a challenge to make an independent film. It's always a challenge to make a low budget film.

It's always good to have no expectations when you see a film. Then you can be pleasantly disappointed or surprised.

It's amazing and a miracle that any film gets made, you have so many moving parts.

It's a unique experience when you're doing an independent film where you have one person who puts up all the funds to make the film.

It's a terrible thing to make films that are never seen or experienced by audiences. Often times nobody knows about them, even though they are great films. They are not promoted and that's really sad.

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

It's a sin to have your films not to make money.