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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film of this scale. Our producer decided that for the film to really work it had to be in Kenya.

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.

Kindness and freedom are not "has been" values in films and in life in general. And that we can still be young and free even if we are 70.

Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really.

Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.

Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as in 2001.

Kolkata is the relatively unexplored part of India as far as Hindi films are concerned.

Learn from your experience shooting your film, and then move on to the next.

Learning how to do some of the technical work on the film can be helpful too and allows you to start the film on your own. However, if you are passionate about an idea, just begin.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard. What you’ve really got to do is focus on learning as much about life, and about various aspects of it first.

Let's say music is needed for only 43 seconds of film. You have to score it so it is an entity, so it won't bother anyone when it ends so quickly. Or if a song runs 2 minutes and 45 seconds, but the titles run a minute longer, you have to arrange that song so it doesn't get repetitious.

Life has no plot, why must films or fiction?

Life is more important than 'what film I do next.

Light is my brush. Film is my canvas.

Like every filmmaker, I make my films to reach the widest audience possible.

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident

Like most filmmakers and writers, there are roots in my own life, but they are stories that I invent. There was a period of time in my life when I made directly autobiographical films where I truly told what happened to me. But, now, I don't make directly autobiographical films anymore. I am more for renouncing that and being in front of history. The large part of my work tells about something I know. It's close.

Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.

Looking back at all the films it just seems like one long film.

Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.

Look at Charlotte Gainsbourg, in the Lars von Trier film Antichrist. She's unbelievable. She doesn't act; she's there. She's great. And you love her for that, because it's so daring, what she has to do. And she does it as if it is nothing. I think she's brave. I fell in love with her when I saw that film. She is a revelation. Total revelation.

Listen, anybody who has a film festival has the right to show what they want.

Lots of crime films are about work. Free Fire could have been about a company of plumbers doing pipe-fixing and stuff. But the plumbing film is not so exciting.

'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience.

Love stories that are too simple don't deserve to have films made about them.

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

Making a film is an incredibly technical undertaking.

Making a film is like learning the ropes all over again.

Making a film, it uses a certain... 'pretend-muscle,' I don't know what you want to call it. It exhausts something in me, I find. It has to be really something to get me interested.

Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it.

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to.

Making films is too big an undertaking to be doing it on a whim, so you're waiting all the time, until you finally meet the person who gets it.

Making a film, I've learned, can be an exhausting process, due to the need for backing, distribution, etc.

Making a film that is in seven days of one week is not a new idea.

MAMMOOTTY has presented an outstanding performance in film'New Delhi'

Making a film transforms your relationship to the world. And there's some sort of natural authority that builds up along the way.

Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.

Making [Pineapple Express] was a blast. I'd kind of gotten to the point professionally where I was pretty emotionally exhausted from making dramatic films.

Making your first feature film is actually impossible.

Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood.

Many of the shows I danced in don't exist on film, but they do exist in the memories of those who were in the theater for that single moment in time. And nothing can replace that.

Many of my favorite films, if someone were to tell me simply what they're about, I probably wouldn't be that interested. Plot often has so little to do with what's at the heart of a film.

Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few.

Many thrillers follow such reliable formulas that you can look at what's happening and guess how much longer a film has to run.

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

Mass-market movies have become about one thing. They kind of declare themselves right off the bat. . . . But when I go to see (a film), I want to be surprised. I want to see something I never expected. And when you get that, it should be celebrated.

Marketing does have a lot to do with the success of a film. But even more so, and especially since home video, I've learned that a movie has a life of its own. A movie goes out there, and it exists, and it continues. I'm always fascinated by what movie people bring up when they approach me.