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Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence.

Pakistan now is like a horror film franchise. You know, it's 'Friday the 13th, Episode 63: The Terrorist from Pakistan.' And each time we hear of Pakistan it's in that context.

Part of the discipline of being an editor is that you have to be a good audience member; your work is to be a surrogate audience member on the films you are working on.

Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple.

Part of my claim to fame is that my first film was also Johnny Cash's first film.

Part of my aspiration as a film actor is to bring subtlety to everything I do - honesty but subtlety.

Overall I think the show went well, kudos to Miss Jeanie It was well rounded. From artwork to singing, to spoken word to short films, I think it definitely stimulated the audience's senses.

Patti [Smith] was my experiment, to be honest. And the film is what we got out of it. At the end of the day, I learned a lot about how to make a film.

People don't understand that my films is not about being scandalous - it's about being critical of our own society.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

People ask me, "Why do you love making films?" and I always say, "Because I love film." I hope that I can call myself a movie buff.

People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

People have been very resistant to giving me more than the standard amount of money. So I keep making films on a similar scale. Which is fine, but also frustrating.

People gravitate occasionally to the brilliantly made art low budget films, which is maybe one out of every five hundred low budget films made.

People like my films. They understand me through my films; it's like a connection that has been established between all my work and myself and the audience and the viewer.

People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

People say, 'Oh, you're famous now, so you must go to L.A.' - I don't live in L.A. now - but it's like, why wouldn't you? The weather is amazing, the film industry's there, it's a great quality of life.

People say to me, "You make fantastic films" and I say, "No, I make documentaries.

People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all.

People will now go to films with subtitles, you know. They're not afraid of them. It's one of the upsides of text-messaging and e-mail. Maybe the only good thing to come of it.

People say you never retire in this [film] business and I say, well, not until they retire you.

People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

Personally, I can't stand violence. In any standard American mainstream movie, there's 20 times more violence than in any one of my films, so I don't know why those directors aren't asked why they're such specialists for violence.

Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.

Phil Ramone and Quincy Jones were very close. Phil Ramone was one of the greatest record producers of all time. I don't know if they talk about him enough in the film, but he produced [Frank] Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, all of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney - Phil Ramone was one of the major record engineers and producers.

Perhaps I am old-fashioned, but black and white films still hold an affectionate place in my heart; they have an incomparable mystique and mood.

People often ask me whether I prefer theater or film, and the answer is that I prefer the one I'm not doing: The grass is always greener.

Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.

Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.

Politicians need a film appreciation course.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.

Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?

Popular films are so powerful and compelling that it's often easier to accept their versions of history than the much more complicated true stories.

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

Positive doesn't mean unflawed: It means human and vulnerable. If you make a film and you're portraying the subject with respect, you're gonna do it in an honest way.

Producing films was a distraction for me for which I payed dearly.

'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good.

Purely cinematic film ... actually the purest expression of a cinematic idea.

Quentin Tarantino asked me to work with him but there is no way I am going to do that while Matthew Vaughn is working in film.

Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter.

Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

Raju Hirani films are filled with simplicity and goodness. I really love such films.

Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.

Pretty much all films I've seen that depict the life of Christ end with the Crucifixion, almost like the filmmakers don't know what to do after.