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There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there.

There is one thing where people are always right. It is when they are describing what they have been feeling when watching your film. You cannot say: No, you did not feel like that!

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the critic Manny Farber once said of Hitchcock's ROPE Hong Sang-soo's pictures unpeel like an orange.

There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.

There just seems to be more acceptance now of other kinds of British films, than the picture-postcard ones.

There is this old thing that a lot of people say - that the worst experiences make the best films. I don't subscribe to it. But I've seen it happen.

There is visual illiteracy with text-oriented films like bloody 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings.'.

The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same degree that the Commandments influence our daily lives.

Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.

Theres a burgeoning film scene in Romania.

There's a difference between watching a film and watching a bit of cinema and enjoying a film as a piece of cinema.

There's a great freedom you get when you're making TV that you don't get when you're doing film.

There's a different set of writers and a different director for the films, but Marvel has turned it into a pretty spectacular job.

There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

There's always a level where you think you can improve and do better. Certainly at the beginning... I did four years of straight theater without ever having a part in a movie, and I remember being far more nervous on a film set than I was on the stage. It took a while for that to become less so.

There's a lot of vitriolic ranting out there, but there are literally hundreds of critics on the web who care deeply about film and having something to say about it.

There's always one sequence in every animated film that's the bane of every animator's existence.

There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.

There's always things from shooting a film that you pick up that hopefully make you better.

There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

There's a way in which I feel like, when you're on an enormous film and there's an enormous crew and there are three cameras and there are like 20 setups for every scene, first of all, it's very... I find it very intimidating. And it's also sort of deadening in a way.

There's a theory of accidents that I studied when I was making a film about nuclear weapons: you can never eliminate accidents, because the measures you introduce to prevent accidents actually produce more accidents. That's certainly true of this sport; you're flying over 40 feet of what might look like snow, but it's hard as ice, it's as hard as pavement. You're doing acrobatic spins and tricks, 40 feet above pavement, essentially. There's been more accidents since, and there are going to continue to be more accidents, that's the nature of the sport.

There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.

There's just certain things you don't think about to enjoy a film. Bullets in space are one of them.

There's my pessimism. Because I didn't know yet that type of film is always going to become more extinct, that there won't be anymore. Because there will always be more films that win five Oscars like Terms of Endearment.

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

There's no other way but struggling, forging ahead to do the film.

There's no excuse not to make films on weekends with friends.

There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?

There's no such thing as "an auteurist filmmaker." Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because we cannot put on clothes that don't fit us.

There's no point in looking back, because there's nothing you can really do to improve the film. You can only aggravate and wish you had done stuff better.

There's no such thing as an anti-war film.

There's no social realism in 'Tyrannosaur.' It's not about the social landscape or the political landscape or any of that. It's just about human beings. I never made 'Tyrannosaur' in reference to anybody - I just made it because I had to make my own films.

There's no such thing as a perfect historical film.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

There's nothing quite like the idea of failing spectacularly to excite a film maker

There’s nothing like a good ol’ film light in a fogged up studio.

There's nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don't know anything, and there's a million people, and no one's communicating.

There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into more film, just because I find it super fascinating.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

There's only one rule in photography - never develop colour film in chicken noodle soup.

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction.

There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

There's something magical still about it when I get in a darkroom, and you've shot a roll of film and you develop it and you look at your negatives, and there's like imagery there. That always stuns me.

There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.