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

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

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 go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.

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 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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

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

Poland and my roots are very important for me. That's why I decided to make a feature film in Poland, and with only Polish money.

Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

[Robert] Ford had the idea that through fame he would receive some personal validity, but he didn't. I feel that these are not the main themes, but certainly themes that are at play in this film [Assassination of Jesse James].

Realism is always subjective in film. There's no such thing as cinema verite.

Recently, I've been loving Monster Hunter! A film conversion is currently in planning.

Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.

Richard Donner made great movies. Seminal movies. The Academy, though, and we have to be careful here, should recognize popular films. Popular films are what make it all work. There was a time when popular movies were commercial movies, and they were good movies, and they had to be good movies. There was no segregation between good independent films and popular movies.