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

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

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

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

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 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 liked to come back in 300; they did an origins film of 300 just recently, and it would have been fun to come back and see what happened to my character.

I would define independent film as a movie that is not financed by any of the smaller film companies. Because then, those are movies that in all likelihood are made without stars. And then they have to rely just on the material.

I would have preferred to have been in a film where I could've been more authentic or more human, where the dialogue and my approach to the part could have been more real.

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.

I would have to say that working on 'Warrior' felt more like working on a play than any other film I've ever done.

I would have to say movies are my favorite. I love doing TV, too, but it's always rush, rush, rush. With a feature film, those moments and scenes get a chance to breathe, because you don't have to accomplish as much in one day.

I would loathe to work on modern films.

I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.

I would like to do more feature work. I intend to do that. To be really honest, it's an economic thing because when you make a film that doesn't make what it cost back, it's very difficult to get back in the ring.

I would love to do more science fiction. I always envisioned the Riddick franchise as a continuing mythology, so I always imagined that there would be many other films to follow.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa.

I would love to shoot on film, but you can't really shoot a lot of footage on film, and you can't print a lot of it.

I would love to get into feature films; Im willing to do an action flick, Im willing to do a romantic comedy.