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Basically, Beautiful Creatures was the first lead that I had since Tetro, and it was a lesson in seeing what it's like to film a movie that's of a much bigger scale. It was a good initiation.

"Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.

Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.

Basically you can do anything in a film. I could have place a spaceship in the middle of a street. You can do anything, and I love to talk about this because is so organic to the process.

Baz Luhrrman's movie Romeo and Juliet is what made me decide that I wanted to dedicate my life to making films one way or another.

Because audiences all over the world can see an independent film almost anywhere and anytime, these new distribution outlets have opened a door that is revolutionizing the movie-going experience.

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.

Because of the incredible reputation I have, people find me exciting to watch on film.

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert

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.

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.

Big budgets don't necessarily give you big films.

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

Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.

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

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.

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

'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.

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.

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.

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

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

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'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 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.