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I do the movies just for myself like an institutionalized person who basket-weaves. Busy fingers are happy fingers. I don't care about the films. I don't care if they're flushed down the toilet after I die.

I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I'd prefer doing films where you don't have to leave your brains behind.

I'd rather do theater and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films.

I'd say working on television is much, much tougher than films. But television has a great connect with a live audience, which is a refreshing change for us actors.

I edited Big Funk, some of the footage was shot by Peter Care. We were film buffs as much as music buffs, and so there are film reference as well as sound references.

I enjoyed every minute of directing my first film. Hopefully, I will be doing it many, many more times in the future.

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

I enjoy both comedy and drama, and have had memorable experiences in both film and T.V.

I enjoy making films and some experiences are better than others. Most of the time they're great experiences... but turning up to go to work on this every day was an absolute pleasure and that comes from the top.

I enjoy doing independent films more, only because there's more freedom. There's not as many cooks tampering with what you are trying to do.

I entered the film industry sprinting, but not for long.

If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning it holds you there and you become absorbed by it so that you don't walk away and get bored and so on.

If a concert film is an experience of the musicianship without critiquing it, then this, too, is dropping you into a world and letting you experience it.

If a film isn't really talking about who we are and what our psychologies are, then we're probably not that interested in it, actually.

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

If anything could have pulled me out of retirement it would have been an Indiana Jones film.

I feel as though I would be delighted to come back into working in the film world, and working in the theater world again. I'm just gonna see what happens.

I feel Amazon is really bringing films into the future. So for me it was the best of both worlds.

I feel I've made the transition from model to actress, but I'm not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O'Neill - we all know that a few films don't mean all that much.

I feel Irish-Americans are the forgotten minority group. Nobody else is making films about them.

I feel like Bush presidencies are like "Godfather" films. You should stop at two.

I feel like if a film is well-written, then the character's arc is complete. There really is very little room to expand on that afterwards.

I feel like I'm a fan of film who's actually in the business, too. So it'd be like saying like, ‘Yeah, I love the NFL,’ and then, ‘Yeah, I'm also a wide receiver.’

I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.

I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy.

I feel like there's a lot of experience I have from doing TV animation that would be especially useful doing an animated film in terms of some efficiencies of the process that are necessary for TV, just because you have to crank out material every week, that could be applied to film.

I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

I feel the film companies should pay for proper advertising to see that the movie will sell, instead of putting it on our backs.

I fell in love with film. I didn't start out to be a film actor. I wanted to be a theater actor.

I felt, "Oh, film is a great art because I can pull in music and visual imagery, and it has its literary aspects and drama." Film was a sort of Wagnerian synthesis of the arts, as opposed to opera, which Wagner had thought would be. That's another art form that has seen its best days.

If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm.

I felt that film (Let It Be) was set up by Paul for Paul. That is one of the main reasons the Beatles ended. I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. After Brian died, that's what happened, that's what began to happen to us. The camera work was set up to show Paul and not anybody else. And that's how I felt about it.

I felt like any individual's recovery was more important than the film I was making. And I actually felt that my presence was a form of witness that communicated to the people I was following that their lives mattered.

If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it. We didn't have to do any alterations for Broadway. I was supposed to go a fortnight before it opened to alter anything that was necessary and there was nothing really.

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

If I die on a film set when I'm 80, I'll be happy with that.

If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

If I don't have to think about the commercial aspect of it, then I feel like I'm going to make better films.

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.

If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in 'Richard II' on stage was a huge physical workout, so I ended up more toned than I normally am.

I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production.

If I had my choice, I would do the same little independent films, but they would have $100 million budgets, so I could get paid a fortune and hang out in a huge trailer.

If I had only one film in the world to save, it would be 'Grand Illusion.'

If I had to climb into hell and wrestle the devil himself for one of my films, I would do it.

If I have to shoot on digital, I will not make the film.

If I'm able to catch the screening, there's a point in the film where, like clockwork, a portion of the audience gets really emotional and begins to cry. And that's very difficult to make happen.

If I'm ever working on a set and anyone talks about a master shot, I say there is no master shot. Before I even went to film school, I learned about movies by being in a British feature film, where everything was shot master shot, mid-shot, close-up. But I reject the idea of a master shot. You don't shoot everything mechanically; you find imaginative ways that serve the action.

If I just concentrate I can walk into memory's store and find the right shelf with the right film and disappear into it.

If I like a film, I usually appreciate the way it was made the first time.