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My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

My choices in films are spontaneous.

My contribution to film has always been negligible.

My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film's case 'run on' manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

My father did think I should get interested in television. But I had very little interest in television and it wasn't something I wanted to do. I really never thought about going to work on big feature films in Hollywood. But when we made The Householder, Columbia Pictures bought it. Who would have ever imagined?

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.

My favorite phrase, that a friend of mine who worked on the Potter films and was a lot older than me would use in front of me, and I picked up from him many great phrases - the English have a lot of great idioms for sweating. I don't know why that is. But that's what we do. I feel like it's particularly our country; probably everywhere has a lot of idioms for sweating. He always said, "I'm sweating like a glassblower's asshole," which I always found an incredibly strange and yet vivid image.

My favorite scene in this film was the flying car, because that was just wicked.

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

My favourite film is 'Le Diner de Cons,' a French movie.

My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.

My film about Bush didn't prevent his reelection.

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

My films do very well on home video.

My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant.

My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.

My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images.

My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism.

My films have always been considered the benchmark in action. I have a big responsibility to shoulder.

My films have elements of genre in them, which prevents them from being purely art films.

My films really have to be a part of a whole body of work that says something to me.

My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.

My film is in French. It's not something folkloric. It's who we are. There's this tension about immigrants coming in. Will they learn French? Will they adapt? In this film, I'm on the reverse side because Monsieur Lazhar comes from a society where French is also the second language.

My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.

My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.

My films have to do with justice and many, many other concerns. That's the sad part of coming from my generation, and having been boxed in by those words like "identity.

My films seem to be better understood and better received by the monthly publications. On television the first reactions are usually unfavorable.

My first film, 'Vanishing on 7th Street,' I really just kinda went in for it. Just gave it my all at the auditions.

My friends and I started making films when I was still in kindergarten.

My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.

My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal.

My good films were independent and my bad films were not.

My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life.

My good friend Josh Bibby happens to be a pro skier and has used my music in 2 international ski films.

My job is going to be to direct the film - I'm going to do it. And that's where my job ends.

My home in Hollywood is not a home. I do a film here, a film there, as they want it. I don't have a relationship. Like, Warner Bros. has a great relationship with Clint Eastwood and takes care of him.

My job is — I make socks. That’s all I do. I don’t necessarily care about the show. I would rather film this — me doing what I do — than being around my family.