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And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.

'Angel Heart' was one of my favorite films.

An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director because it's uniquely a Bergman film. But that again is not the general - no, that's much more the exception than the rule.

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.

Anybody can make a movie, if you have the will. The digital revolution has made it very inexpensive to make a film. Anybody who wants to can do it.

Anybody I'd spoken to who'd been in Siberia said 'would you please put mosquitos in your film,' that's what everybody knows about, they're big and they're nasty.

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.

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.

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

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

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

["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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.