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Because you make a world that didn't exist before, and you can go into that world deeper and deeper. It's unbounded out there. One film takes you into one area, another film takes you into another area. There could be trillions, zillions of worlds that exist in the big space.

Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.

Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.

Before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.

Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.

Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

Be humble and say okay, all right, I have to prep myself. So everybody prepped, and we finished the film [Valerian ] four days before the end.

Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time.

'Beloved.' That's an amazing film and I'm sorry more people didn't see it when it came out.

'Best Man Holiday' was a very successful film.

Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.

Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.

Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.

Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.

Boldness, sensuality and an unapologetic way of showing things, that is part of my films.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

'Bombay Velvet' is my first film in a trilogy about Bombay, before it became a metropolis.

Bond's introduction: "Bond. James Bond." Repeated in 17 subsequent Bond films. Number One in the Top Ten Most Famous Movie Quotes. -The Guinness Book of Film

Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

'Brookline' was a very small film and it was only here for a very short time and I wasn't able to catch it.

'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.

British films are all "room with a view and a staircase and a pond.

But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan.

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

But I'd be lying if I didn't say that every time you go to make a film, you're desperate to either do it better than you did it last time or to not repeat yourself.

But films should be voyeuristic. What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.

But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.

But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film.

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.

But Mary Elizabeth felt different. She kept saying it was an "articulate" film. So "articulate." And I guess it was. The thing is, I didn't know what it said even if it said it very well.

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.

But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.