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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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 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 all just one film to me. Just different chapters.

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 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.

It's a strange place where the film industry is at. I guess you could just play superhero after superhero. That seems to be the only guaranteed big-money thing. I don't know.

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 whole other way of working when you work in films: You know exactly the arc of your character.

It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending.

It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

It's been TV and a lot of independent films. I'm so happy and blessed to have all these opportunities. But I'm also working on somebody else's project.

It says something about the curious nature of film, that someone can be so alive on screen, when we're all too aware that they've passed. it underscores how we're mortal, and films are immortal (commenting on the death of Heath Ledger)

It's certainly difficult to balance marketing a film and putting it out there to everybody with wanting to keep it fresh for the audience.

It's definitely a unique situation that we're in. And, yeah, it is difficult not having our ringleader here with us to talk about the film [the Waitress], not having our main person here. People are also asking in relation to the film: what would Adrienne [ Shelly] say about this or that? But I don't know. I don't know what she would say.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

Its easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for A Life Less Ordinary.

It's difficult to keep anything fresh for an audience these days. With technology being what it is people seem to know everything there is to know about a film before you've even made it.

It's funny, because I don't think of my films as "slow-burn." I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase until people started labeling me with it.

It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.

It's funny, but three of my early films were with Liam Neeson, before Liam Neeson was a big star.

It's funny, 90 percent of what I've done has been television, and I never really wanted to do it that much. I was really interested in film and theater. What's ironic is that when I started doing television, I did a bunch of amazing shows all in a row, starting with The Corner.

It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.

It’s funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made! But even a quite good romantic comedy.

It's hard to be surprised by a film. It's hard to be surprised by another actor or by a director when you've seen enough and been around. So when I am, or when I forget that I'm watching someone's movie, or when I don't know how someone made a certain turn that I didn't expect... You know, I'm in.

It's funny how a film about a murderous old English toff can help you.

It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.

It's hard for me to approach [a film] as a still image now that I know exactly what it takes to make a movie. I mean, I know what it takes to make a movie that lasts five minutes.

It's happening right now... it's just not on film, it's not being recorded.

It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism.

It's hard to get personal films off the ground, and it's hard developing them.