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If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties.

If were were in a film, the villain would turn out to be the least-expected person. But as we aren't in a film, I'd go for the character who tried to strangle you.

If you are going to remake a film, you may as well remake a classic.

If you ask me, you see, I prefer doing film. The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.

If you are truly involved in a film and if you are going to do any kind of good work, you have to have that full commitment to the work. If you aren't willing to do that, or if that is not in your nature, I say steer clear of it.

If you can't categorize a film for a studio, it's really difficult for them to wrap their heads around it and give you the money.

If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle.

If you could call me buff, my version of buff was when I finished that film [Swiss Army Man].

If you do an original film and you want to cut a scene out you do it. But when you do a shot by shot remake you don't have that option and every scene has to work again.

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun.

If you don’t like the films of Samuel Fuller , then you just don’t like cinema.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.

If you have anyone smoking pot in a movie it automatically, I think, knocks it up to maybe PG-13 movie rating and if there's a lot of it, even an R rating, even though chances are it is a legal activity in whatever place the film takes place.

If you have someone falling out of the boat, you'd have to drag the boat up the river and film the same scene ten times, every time, dragging the boat exactly where it was up the river.

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.

If you look at Japanese film, it is made up of collage or bricolage, it is made up of lists, and suddenly when you stand back from the lists you begin to see the pattern of a life.

If you make a film normally it's all right, the distributors are helpful and cooperative. But if you make a film that's a little stange, a little bizarre, then all the time it's a struggle with them.

If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.

If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, "Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons," and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very high recognition factors and great films, but no organized plans for really making the most of them and increasing their value.

If you need to get in physical shape for a film and you have to maintain that for six months, at the start of the film, I was never able to do it.

If you make a feelgood film which is complete candyfloss, where everybody is good and everything is beautiful and hunky dory, it won't appeal to the audience.

If you're a designer, there's got to be some films that you've seen that have inspired you creatively. There's no escaping that.

If you make a good first film and audiences respond, than hopefully you'll have the opportunity to do a sequel.

If you're an artist working in China, you become aware that there are things you have to give up in order to practice your art. For the most part, you know what they are. With my first three films, the consequences of making them was that I had to forgo the possibility of releasing them theatrically in China.

If you're a theater director, you're not going to be prepared for the technical side. And if you're a technical director, you're not going to be prepared for the acting side. The only thing you can do is go through the meat grinder of your first film.

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.

If you're fighting with your boyfriend, you can go to the movies and cry it out and leave happy because the ending of the film is happy.

If you're the sort of person that likes a job where once you know what you're doing you can keep doing what you're doing, don't ever become a film composer.

If you're doing a big spectacle film, you've got to be mindful of large masses. Even then, you've got to be responsible only to your storytelling.

If you're making a film, the one thing I've learned is you have to pick somebody really well-known to make it relevant.

If you're playing around with a film, you're just playing around with it. But if it has to go into theaters, you get yourself into gear and finish it.

If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.

If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are.

If you think anyone goes out and commits crimes because of some daffy film they've seen, then I question your judgment.

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.

If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary.

If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine.

If you watch my movie, you understand I am perverse and weird and angry and not looking to direct a film that ends with a bunch of teenagers exploding into glitter.

If you watch any John Hughes film of the eighties, that was my childhood experience.

If you watch a film without music, there's nothing that you can connect with.

I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.

I get a terminal dissatisfaction on films. If I was bad in one scene, it's impossible to let go. And it can make or break my day. If I drank, I would probably drink a lot.

I get criticized for taking roles in films like Ghost Rider 2, but if you look at my résumé, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.

I get quite fed up being on a film set day after day, six days a week. It can get to be a grind.

I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.

I generally like very visually striking films. I love a lot of Stanley Kubrick's films. I would have to say 'Dr. Strangelove', which of course has got resonance in 'Watchmen'. It's a favorite movie of mine.

I go into every film not just wanting to play the hot girl in the movie. It kills me.