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In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.

I often get offered things that are so similar to things that I have done, and life is too short. When you make a film or a show, as you get older, that's a lot of time to be doing something that you're not absolutely invested in or in love with.

I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.

I personally love to see films not knowing very much about them. When you see it, it's like a flower opening up. I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

I personally think Chimes of Midnight is a much better film than Citizen Kane.

I pick my feature film battles very carefully. They're going to be personal and they're going to take a lot of my energy. I'm not going to be some big production company and be Jerry Bruckheimer or something like that. It doesn't interest me.

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.

I personally like to do independent films.

I prefer thrillers but when its thriller/horror, I like it. The gore is not very important to me, I prefer suspense. But I like dark films.

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

I prefer to think of film making - you know, um, the sweat is supposed to be invisible. But a lot of sweat can go into making a film. But of course, if you enjoy doing it, you enjoy doing it.

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which is sad really.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

I probably would have made [films] anywhere. Every city has something they're ashamed of. I would have made films about it and turned it into something positive.

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

I read as much as I could, but really just spoke to Chris Chibnall and asked all the pertinent questions. That made me feel like we weren't going to do an off-the-peg Camelot, which has been touched upon in many films and TV series before. I really just picked his brain and, in doing so, I got fired up by tackling Merlin in a fresher angle.

I realized I probably wouldn't make another film that cuts through commercial and creative things like 'Godfather' or 'Apocalypse.'

I realized painting could look like a film, and a film like a painting.

I realised what a powerful position you are in if you own the rights to your film because then you control the distribution and I ended up getting 25 million viewers for McLibel and that's what it's all about for me.

I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring.

I realized that everyone in Western society, in some weird way, believes that they've had the experience of producing feature films.

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

I really dislike it when women reject feminism; that's ridiculous. I am a product of feminism. Without feminism I would not be making films.

I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.

I really enjoy working on small films.

I really don't see myself being apart from music. I like doing lots of different things. I've been involved in film for quite a long time and I just like doing film.

I really believe the form of the film must be in the scenario; cinema is not just added value to the scripting. I believe in it as a totality.

I really feel that if I did another [Narnia] film I'd just be repeating myself and I don't really want to do that as an actor.

I really have no preference between TV and film. I think that each individual project is its own thing and has a very different style. I have worked on big movies and small movies and network TV. I have had amazing experiences in each environment, and awful ones - more good than bad, though.

I really feel that a big part of my job - besides getting the money - is to see to it that Woody [Allen] has what he needs to make the film that he has envisioned.

I really, really love directing films.

I really respect people who, while they only do films, they have a wide repertoire and a wide thematic array of films they do.

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work.

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original.

I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time.

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s.