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Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.

Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.

He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a great source of regret. I love spending time with him. He's always very open and effusive. His interest in you is genuine.

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.

Hollywood is no longer the top. I love going to the cinema. I've always adored the idea of being in great, epic films. But they just don't really exist anymore. It's a real shame. There's great auteurs that create small movies, but it's really hard for anyone to see them, and for them to make any sort of money, or for them even to be made in the first place.

Honestly, I do spend most of my time between films trying to get the next one made.

Honestly, I don't go out of my way to see animated movies. I'm mostly influenced by.. the films I tend to like are the small films, small personal stories. With characters you can believe.

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.

Horror films don't create fear. They release it.

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?

Horror films have been with us forever, so you can't say I originated that in any way, but it sort of brought back a classical way to make a horror film.

Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch.

I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

How can you work in film and still see the overt racism that exists in film and not just be furious all the time?

How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.

I actually find in America, there's a slight snobbery about actors who go back and forth between big heavy dramas and popcorn fare. That always intrigues me, because that doesn't exist in the same way in Britain. And I imagine it would be worse. In terms of the sort of class, and the sort of snobby, slightly on the back-foot thing Britain has. But it's much more prevalent in America. I'm really intrigued by it. I don't know why that is. But I'm aiming to break down those barriers by being in a Shakespeare film and a Smurfs film within six months of each other.

I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.

I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.

I always approach film as a fan.

I also love a film by Ang Lee - "Lust, Caution.

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

I always figured that once I wrapped a film, then anything beyond that is none of my business. If I can avoid seeing the final product, then all I have in my head is feeling good about the experience.

I always find live shows on film kind of boring. Even my favorite ones, I kinda zone out for most of it. It's just so different seeing a band in the flesh and then watching a film of it, even if you have a hundred cameras and it's shot from every angle. There's just a communal, visceral thing that never translates very well.

I always collect a bunch of images for every film that I do, that reminds me of an essence of the character, or the time that they live in, or what they're experiencing.

I always go into a film situation depressed and fearful.

I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.

I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing.

I always take hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I used to work for National Geographic, and they gave us a lot of film.

I always sort of create practical problems so that I don't have to see a film I've just done. I'm too vulnerable, too fragile. People see your work, and there's nothing you can do. You're completely exposed.

I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director.

I always thought I was going to be the film guy until I died.

I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.

I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

I always wanted to make this film or another film. I thought the worst thing you could do was to react to Slumdog's success in some way. I thought it would be really foolish.

'Hunger' definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers' film.

I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.

I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.

I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because there is a restoration going on right now for the film through UCLA and Sundance.

I always aspire to that, where it feels like the film was made by the characters as opposed to the filmmakers. I try to be invisible.

I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.