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When I used a woman in my films or wrote a woman into my film, I wanted her to be a central point and a motivating point or a catalyst to function in the film.

When I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I remember being very disappointed with them. They weren't frightening at all. I'm sure they'd be very funny now.

When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.

When I was doing 'The Sopranos,' I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

When I was five. That's when I started to love film.

When I was asked to make the film, I decided that it was like taking on a new career at the age of sixty-eight. I've never acted before. And taking direction is not something I'm very good at. I've always known who I am and what I was going to do, and I've always just done it.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

When I was in film school I was learning more theory than practice.

When I was younger, I didn't read that much. I was more interested in film and music. Now I'm curious. I want to know what it's all about.

When I was young, it was easier to make films. It wasn't as expensive, there was more support. I found that I couldn't get the money to make films.

When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there.

When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing.

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.

When I watch films now, theres more of a musicality to the way the film are written.

When I watch a film, I watch only as an audience and only later I might analyse it.

When I write a film, I have already made the trailer

When my films don't work it's usually because I tried some very experimental idea. I tried new ideas and they just didn't work, as opposed to trying to do something conventional and having it be so conventional nobody wanted to see it.

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

When something is based on an iconic film, and we found this out with "The Producers" too, you've got to pay homage to what I'd call the greatest hits. ... People expect certain lines and moments they love.

When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done, and Pennebaker answered, Nothing except shots in the street. Dylan asked to see them, and he agreed to let him do the film.

When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

When the conversation turns too quickly to films,I see it as a sign of weakness.

When the small independent film, which depends on its artistic appeal rather than wide commercial distribution by an MPAA member, is now denied access, the playing field becomes unfair and uneven.

When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment.

When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film.

When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.

When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me.

When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

When you decide to make a film, it's imperative that it's a story you just have to tell...no matter what. If so, then dive in. It won't be 'work'...it will be a thrilling, deeply satisfying experience.

When you are making an independent film, money is never an issue.

When you decide you want to make a film, you start listening to everything that anyone has to say about filmmaking and reading everything, and there's a maxim about film being a visual medium, and so you need to make, in a sense, a silent movie and layer on dialogue.

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!

When you do a film, you start to get the character, and then it disappears for a year before it's released and you get feedback.

When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

When you do bigger films, the financiers take more risks.

When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with

When you film a reality show, it's so jumbled. They shoot episodes in all orders!

When you finish a film, if you believed in your character, you're empty.

When you finish a film, before the first paying audience sees it, you don't have any idea. You don't know if you made a success or a flop, when it comes to the box office.

When you have all the bells and whistles - you've got the big, fancy catering, you've got the big, fancy car service and the big, fancy trailer - it makes it very comfortable and everybody's making a lot of money. But that doesn't necessarily mean you're going to end up with a great film.

When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities you have from what you shot.

When you look at my film you see footage that is unbelievably awesome and beautiful and dangerous looking. It's something that is very, very cinematic.

When you listen to the music, you can also see the film or read the article, and it's all part of the same journey that you get to take with the artist you're interested in. It's a balancing act.

When you know you made a film that people are going to watch, that's just really awesome; you know you did it for something, you know you shot a film for people to watch it.