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At its best, film should be like a ski jump. It should give the viewer the option of taking flight, while the act of jumping is left up to him.

At the end of the day, you're trying to make a certain film within a certain budget. Those rules never change.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

A TV show is an open universe, whereas a film is more of a closed universe. No disrespect to movies, there's just a lot of artifice in closing out emotional storylines after 90 minutes.

Audiences are less intrigued, honestly, by battle. They're more intrigued by human relations. If you're making a film about the trappings of the period, and you're forgetting that human relationships are the most engaging part of the storytelling process, then you're in trouble.

A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

A whole film is just about arriving at a moment where you hopefully transfer some feeling to the audience.

A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'

Back in the 70s it cost 15-20$ a shot for the film, the processing, and the contact sheet, now it’s twice that.

Back in the '80s, a lot of the images I used were from TV or from films on TV.

At some level, you've got to have the ability to - especially in film and in front of the camera, you got to have the ability to drop into character and close off the entire crew and the camera and everything else.

A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb; I didn't really flatline much. When I did The Wire, that's when I thought all the doors would open, but that's when things flatlined. I had a really hard time just getting seen for film, which was the next step.

A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

"Based on a true story" is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of "no loan request refused." For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.

Basically, Beautiful Creatures was the first lead that I had since Tetro, and it was a lesson in seeing what it's like to film a movie that's of a much bigger scale. It was a good initiation.

Basically you can do anything in a film. I could have place a spaceship in the middle of a street. You can do anything, and I love to talk about this because is so organic to the process.

Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good.

Because audiences all over the world can see an independent film almost anywhere and anytime, these new distribution outlets have opened a door that is revolutionizing the movie-going experience.

Because I could take this as an opportunity to create something that I pretty much guarantee nobody else was going to create in film.

Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.

Because of the incredible reputation I have, people find me exciting to watch on film.

Baz Luhrrman's movie Romeo and Juliet is what made me decide that I wanted to dedicate my life to making films one way or another.

Because you make a world that didn't exist before, and you can go into that world deeper and deeper. It's unbounded out there. One film takes you into one area, another film takes you into another area. There could be trillions, zillions of worlds that exist in the big space.

Before Michael Caine you had to have been in the RAF to be an actor.

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert

Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina.

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

Before my commercial success, I had difficulty doing what I wanted, but my sincere short films always won prizes in festivals. So I was ready for larger successes.

Before, it was just about making the films - and now it's releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve.

Be humble and say okay, all right, I have to prep myself. So everybody prepped, and we finished the film [Valerian ] four days before the end.

Before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books.

Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation.

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

Being on set is quite difficult, because it's so big and you've got to try and relax, which isn't easy when you know you're in a massive film. I was terrified for quite a long time.

'Beloved.' That's an amazing film and I'm sorry more people didn't see it when it came out.

'Best Man Holiday' was a very successful film.

Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor.

Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.

Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.

Boldness, sensuality and an unapologetic way of showing things, that is part of my films.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

Box office figures are not something that can decide the success of a film on its own, but they are one of the many yardsticks that help me measure how well a film has been received.

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office' and never have been, and that's never entered into my kind of mind set.

'Breathe In' was such a big deal for me. It was my first anything. Before that, I was going through 'Backstage Magazine' and applying for student films.

'Brookline' was a very small film and it was only here for a very short time and I wasn't able to catch it.

But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic.

But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film.