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Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished. It's abandoned or it's ripped out of your hands, and it's thrown into the marketplace, never finished. It's a very rare experience where you find a filmmaker who says, "That's exactly what I wanted. I got everything I needed. I made it just perfect. I'm going to put it out there.

Any film that you make, it's a very high end game of musical chairs ... but that's just the nature of filmmaking. You do the dance with a certain actor.

Any film is at least better than real life.

Anyone can buy CG technology. It's not that it's easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they're incredibly hard to make.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

Any time a new horror film comes out that looks appealing, I'm always excited to go see it.

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.

Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don't trust them. I have no faith in them so I would prefer to stay away.

Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget.

["Aquarius"] it had a bit of a rocky arrival in cinemas because we were given the 18+ rating, which did not make any sense in terms of the Brazilian rating system for a film like this.

A really good horror film has a story.

Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.

A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.

Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

Artists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films.

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

As a kid, all I wanted to do was be in a Viking film.

As a kid, when you're in a film with somebody, you look up to them, you know?

As a gut thing, my next project is always the complete opposite of the thing I've just done. So if I've spent a lot of time doing film, I might then do some radio.

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of the day, if you have made a film it's totally your responsibility, and if it works it's your responsibility and if it doesn't it's also your responsibility.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

As an actor, I don't feel like it's necessary to watch a great deal of films. In fact, I think it can lead to imitation and unhealthy competition, which just isn't needed.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

A Separation is another film that I think is extraordinary, and one of those things that feels like it's from another planet, much like Terrence Malick's movies did: at a certain point, you feel like he's an alien from another planet telling us and looking at us and showing us how we are. I also really, really love Jerry McGuire.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

As far as music, that's always going to be my first love and I've always loved doing music and I always will, but right now it's more into film, television and behind the scenes with writing and producing. I'm still going to keep releasing music for my fans.

As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

As far as behind the scenes, I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things.

As far as I'm concerned, the coolest word in film is 'cult.'

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

asically, we got to know other and openly trade stories, and had some time to prep. As far as the 'going too far' thing, the great thing about film art is that you can go too far, and with multiple takes nobody has to see it.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

Aside from doing publicity for this film [The Longest Yard], I have Auto Maniac coming on the History Channel and since I got married recently, we are going to get to that Honeymoon we had to put off.

A short film is just another storytelling medium like TV, Features, and Webisodes. I am just thrilled that Silent Cargo is getting out there for people to see.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

A singer's biographical film should have their music and their voice.

As I got into the animation, as I learned more about the business, I learned that you need a lot of people to do anything animated - even a short, let alone a feature film. And you need a lot of money.

As I'm getting older, I want to make sure every film I do really counts.

As much as I moved to New York and tried to work in theater as much as I could - I developed a relationship with Circle Rep - make no mistake about it, I really, really wanted to be in a film. It seemed like almost everyone I knew at least did something in a movie, except me.

As long as you keep your budgets small, there's a way of making films.

As my passion is theatre when I do a film I'm taking time out from my theatre career. So, I'm desperate to get back into the theatre. So, I have to make sure that I put my foot down, especially with the agents and stuff, and say: "Hey no, I'm doing some theatre!" It is hard but it matters so much to me that it's just something that's going to be necessary and people will have to deal with it.

As much as I like watching horror films, I never thought I would act in them.

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.