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Nothing can teach you what it's like to work on a film set, and the best education there can be for an actor is to walk up the street and observe human nature.

Nothing's really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.

Nothing regarding man is ever inhuman. That's why I make films, not iceboxes.

Not so much a film as a visual essay, exquisitely directed and photographed (by Sacha Vierny)... Difficult to watch but well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged.

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't.

Novels written with film contracts in mind have a faint but unmistakable, and ruinous, odor.

Now it really is, believe it or not, 90% of the films are green lit, not by the studio heads, but by the marketing department.

Now I’m the go-to-girl for silent films.

Now Tarantino is making DJANGO UNCHAINED. Everybody is telling me I am in the movie but I've not been asked by Tarantino officially. Not yet. There were many, many other Django films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one Django.

Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on.

Now there's always exceptions to that and the reason is if the film doesn't really work, whereas before you could rely on a decent amount of DVD sales to prop up the revenue to ensure that you got out in a decent manner, now if the film doesn't work, the film doesn't work and there's none of that DVD revenue to fall back on and you can lose a huge, huge sum of money on a big budget movie.

Of course, the male-directed films make more money.

Of course, much easier to do a film when you're doing an extremely emotional part than it is doing it onstage over and over especially.

Of course, like all film-makers I've been mesmerised by cinema since I was a child.

Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.

Often I think the novels I read won't make very good movies - I better not say which I'm looking at for potential films! - but it's nice to have an excuse to just sit and read for a whole day.

Often with film, I find that you're just really getting to know a person. They're just starting to sink in, and then you wrap the film.

On a film set, we're all glorified troubleshooters, really, as directors. It's not if a problem arises. It's when.

Oh, what the hell did I know? I went to the set the first day in full makeup and the director told me to take it off. So I did the film without makeup. I had nothing to do with anything I did. I never understood why I was so famous.

Once a film gets into production, the actors sometimes begin to have more input than a writer does.

Once a film costs a certain amount of money, things have to round off.

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

Once a film is shot, the thing that mostly happens is that I go see all the things I would have fixed in my performance and sometimes, very rarely, I see a moment that surprise me and I go, "Oh, that's not bad. That was nice.

On a low-budget film, you don't have all the luxuries.

On an independent film, you really learn about pace. You have so little time to do things, that you really have to know your scenes.

Once you finish a film, it doesn't belong to you anymore - it belongs to the audience to interpret it the way they feel like interpreting.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

Once you start to realize that a film is the sum of its editing, then editing is the thing you're always looking at.

One day I received a call from my agent, he asked me to put myself on tape for a film that was being cast in LA. I was thrilled at the possibility alone.

One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films.

One good thing about acting in film is that it's good therapy.

One feature film that I am most proud of is Forrest Gump which starred Tom Hanks. Once you are called out to work in film, yes it is a small industry and your name gets around pretty fast.

One film critic back in the early days said "It's a pity Mr. Harryhausen didn't animated the actors, too.

One friend said, "Donnie Darko movie was weird!" And I thought, "Hmm. I don't think we're as good of friends as I thought." It's not like I disliked him for it; it just meant we weren't on the same page I thought we were. Because I can't imagine watching that film and not being moved to tears.

One important thing, just being a film composer in general, is to have a great respect for the art that you're working on - a great respect for the film and a great respect for the filmmakers.

One hopes for that type of result but you just never know what factors will work in your favor. I think I just was concentrating on making the best film I could under the circumstances I was given. That's all I could really do.

One might have thought that the most significant change in the film industry that would come about with a transition from the communist economy to capitalism would fundamentally concern the sources of funding.

One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.

One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.' I'd love to do some really silly comedy someday.

One of my favorite films is LATE SPRING by Yasujiro Ozu. To me, it represents film as art.

One of my groupies gave me a film that they made, and it ended up being amazing, so I got it shown at South by Southwest. If I can help get their stuff out there, then great.

One of the biggest changes for me on a practical level of shooting the film was having a second unit.

One of the marvelous things about film is that if you expose it long enough you're going to get a picture.

One of the great things about film is that, typically anything that's introduced in the first five minutes, the audiences will by into.

One of the proudest things for me with this film [The Fourth Phase] is that year after year we put ourselves right out there making it and no one got seriously injured.

One of the positive aspects from my point of view in terms of lifestyle doing film is that I can say "Well, I'm now going to have three months where I'm just going to hang out and be with the family".

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.