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I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That's still what I am doing. The end.

I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing.

I was doing the promotion for Moon in LA at the same time that Tony Scott was there with [The Taking of] Pelham 123. But obviously he was so concentrating on his own film that he didn't even know I was doing a feature film.

I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.

I was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation.

I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.

I was making a film [Dream of Life] about Patti [Smith], but I was taking pictures, too.

I was making commercials. That's how I learned the craft. That was the marketing part of it: directing commercial for TV. It wasn't the most common thing to become a filmmaker in Greece. I started by saying I was interested in marketing and have a proper job in advertising and commercials. Basically, I studied film to learn how to do marketing, and commercials. As I studied film I learned I'd be interested in making films instead of commercials.

I was lucky with my first film because it had Warhol in it. That was the selling point.

I was never a fanatical movie person. There are many popular films I absolutely love like anyone else. Having said that, I don't have time to go to the movies very much. I work a lot of different things, I'm always busy. But I'm always happy to see a popular movie.

I wasn't that much of a Disney buff growing up, but I love the mystical and magical nature of Peter Pan, and I have connected with that character through Owen [Suskind] in making this film ["Life, Animated"].

I was really able to confirm something that I knew on some level before I'd made a film. The best actors know how to really relax. Because in film, a lot of the decisions are made in the editing room, so when you're trying to guide your performance too much - always it's a push and pull because you can't be too relaxed. Too relaxed and it's like, "What are you doing?" Too tense and it's not good either.

I was really fortunate that I went to a high school where we actually had a film theory program.

I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.

I was spending a lot of time in trailers, you know, on film sets surrounded by film people.

I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really.

I was still making movies so it wasn't as if I were working in a bar, but they were independent films that couldn't find distributors.

I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada.

I was thrilled with how the first series of 'Sherlock' was received. It was such great fun to film, which makes it so rewarding when something you enjoy is so well received.

I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act.

I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.

I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.

I was very inspired by Peter Mullan's film about those kinds of places where you put people who'd been bad.

I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

I watched every single Charlie Chaplin film.

I watch everything from independent art-house cinema to foreign film. I don't watch as many Hollywood blockbusters but once in a while, I'm curious. I like to see what's out there.

I watch mainly fiction. The films I like watching are films where you see people change, like with Boyhood. You see a moment in someone's life where it's a breakthrough. For me, the breakthrough in Boyhood is that amazing moment right at the end when he finds somebody he can feel relaxed with, and who will maybe be a friend for the rest of his life. I like that it doesn't end in a love affair or marriage. It just ends in, "Wow, I found people I can relate to for the first people in my life. These people accept me, I like them.

I watched a lot of the James Bond movies, certainly, both the old ones and the reboot with Daniel Craig. I watched a lot of the Matt Helm films with Dean Martin, which just have these great car scenes where it's rear-projected, and they just start making martinis out of a bar in the glove compartment.

I watch mostly independent films.

I went see the horror thriller, Hannibal. I am a massive fan of Anthony Hopkins. He is superb in the film.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

I went brunette for a film called Fascination and I loved it.

I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.

I went to film school to make films just because you're in control of the story.

I will be making films, and I'm going to keep working, no matter what I have to do. And I don't plan to ever ask for permission from anybody.

I went to school to be a psychiatrist. That's where I was going until I had a teacher-student conference with one of my teachers and there were film school pamphlets, and he said, "You don't belong here. Get out. Go to film school.

I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

I will never, ever do a film as successful as the Harry Potter series. But neither will anyone else.

I went to Washington to ask for a little residual payment for the people who had written films in the early, early days, people who never got any residuals on tapes or anything at all.

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.

I wish I would have had more to do in the film. I hated to get killed so soon.

I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid.

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.

I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year.

I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.