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I'm still trying to do films about black women.

I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient.

I'm still really into set design and construction when I do films. I notice that stuff.

I'm sure every film it's going to be like, 'Okay, this is the scene where your shirt gets ripped off.' I'll never be able to keep my shirt on.

I'm terrified by young people who are doing what they think is film making. What they're really doing is taking that convulsed, fast rhythm of commercials. It's not film making.

I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street.

I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.

I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.

I'm used to my films having little effect on making the world a better place.

I'm very emotional and possessive about all my films.

I'm very free with my sexuality, but not everywhere all the time. I pick and choose when I do nudity, and who I do it for when I'm working, and when I'm doing it. I've done nudity twice in a film.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

I'm very often still very much alive for that other being and that other world long after the film is finished

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

Im very happy with the success of short films. In fact, for me, the short films make more money than the features.

I’m willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I’m willing to put my life before movies.

I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

I, myself, don't like to see a film on Friday night and then forget it by the next day.

In 1962, we created the Filmmakers' Co-Op because nobody wanted to distribute our films. If we had the Internet in those days, we wouldn't have needed the Co-Op.

In 2003, I had the pleasure of acting in three films.

In a film, you always try to have your main character be changed by the end.

In a film you only get two hours to do this big arc and so you have to pick and choose your moments carefully, but with television you get to take your time and just take it episode by episode and discover new things.

In a film, you have to externalize things that are internal and of course it becomes a debate about to what extent you do that.

In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy.

In all the movies I'm in love with someone in my head. There's always love in a film somewhere. It doesn't matter even if it's an action movie.

I naively thought I was making a low-budget movie. But, when the film came out, the Daily Variety reviewer at that time who was named Art Murphy described it as an exploitation film. I had never heard that term before. Roger never used it. So that's how I learned that I had made an exploitation film.

In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.

In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience.

In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

In any film there's always a historical implication.

In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act and you're in the audience

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

Independent films have a very different cachet than success films.

Independent film is for actors that love to act.

Independent film is taking risks in all areas. It's not just about complicated women.

Independent films are really one of the greatest resources these days to actually find unfiltered truth.

Independent films will probably kill themselves off by virtue of their own success. With a crossover hit like PULP FICTION, the criteria by which art-house movies are produced and marketed and exploited have changed. With studio money and overheads and budgets and deal-making machinery, a certain kind of narrative structure and popcorn-type payoff start infusing themselves.

Indian film awards lack credibility.

Indie film isn’t dead. It just grew up.

Indian films are always very passionate and romantic, and so long as the scene is done well aesthetically, I have no qualms doing it.

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

I never ever see a film of mine after I release it to the public. I see it when I shoot it in my dailies and while I'm editing it, re-editing it and reshooting it and all that. By the time it's finished I never want to see it again.

I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.

I never had a great role in a great film.

I never knew that when you're number one on the call sheet you have not only the responsibility of carrying the film but also the responsibility of keeping up the morale of the crew and cast.

I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was all theater training.