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Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

Second films are, you know, like 'difficult second albums', so it's a tricky position to be in but I think he's made a highly accomplished film.

Securing distribution is always a battle. And to get a film released is a pretty special accomplishment.

See, 'A Time to Kill' was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

Seeing what the film becomes, out of your hands - you never know, you know? I'm always rather anxious. It's not like in theater when you are more in control. You're more - not a puppet, but you don't control it. You don't own it.

Seeing Cubism paintings at the Beaubourg makes me very happy and also old films.

Sequels are not done for the audience or cinema or the filmmakers. It's for the distributor. The film becomes a brand.

Seth [Rogen] and Evan [Goldberg] finally convinced a company to finance the film [ Sausage Party] and Sony to distribute it.

Shakespeare's so bloody difficult, and I don't like failure. You can fail on film, but there's nobody actually there in the flesh to watch you failing.

Shooting digitally would not have been easier. Cameras are the same size. I always shoot on film unless I have a reason not to, which I haven't had yet.

Shooting film is not for everybody, but if you're crazy enough it might be for you.

Short films don't go too far.

Sidharth and me were supposed to work much before Bang Bang, we were in talks for a few films which didnt work out.

Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.

Sir, I have seen your film and it is vulgar! Madame, my film rises below vulgarity.

Sitting in the back row of a full audience watching one of my movies, and hearing them cry and hearing them laugh in the right moments, particularly when they laugh at a line I've stolen from one of my family members and put in the film. That excites me a great deal.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

So I decided to make a film about our need to tell stories, to own our stories, to understand them, and to have them heard.

So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.

So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here.

So many films end up being filmed in London or in the same places over and over again.

So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

So many film makers are scared of visual effects - which is no crime.

So many teen films are overproduced and people are going to burnout on the subject.

So many Christmas films either are twee, or try and go super edgy, then stick on something Christmassy at the end of the movie.

Some experience is helpful. "The Pianist" was a film that I could make with my eyes closed because I had lived it and everything was still alive in me.

Some films do portray women in their 40s well, and some other films don't. Some films are written by women, so maybe there's a little more accuracy there.

Some filmmakers go into a film and it's already shot and cut in their head.

Some films go so well, and some films are disappointing. It's the beauty of the craft. You get it right, and you get it wrong. You have tremendous highs, and you have tremendous lows. Hopefully, you learn from them and become better, as you go along.

Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts.

Some films I say no to and they end up working very well, but I don't care, I just want to do something exciting.

Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.

Some movies run off the rails. This one is like the train crash in The Fugitive. I watched it in mounting gloom, realizing I was witnessing something historic, a film that for decades to come will be the punch line of jokes about bad movies.

Some of my films have caused riots, fights, and all kinds of things.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

Some of my favorite all-time movies - Wong Kar-wai is just amazing. In the Mood for Love is probably my favorite film ever. Those lyrical montages are so stunning.

Some people receive medication in order to properly deliver films.

Some people make a great film and then they can't follow up.

Some people look at the surface, while some see what's deep down. The most important thing is that the film should somehow stay with them until the very end.

Something you can do in a comic that you can't do in a film is that you can have thought bubbles.

Something like film, I guess there are so many elements to it, like the dialogue and what makes sense culturally.

Sometimes I criticize movies. It's not fun to watch a movie with me, because I'll go, "That was a really bad shot." My mom's like, "Shut up, Chloe, watch the film!

Something like small English films were in vogue you had something like The Crying Game and everyone piled into London and wanted to make small English movies.

Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.

Sometimes it's more difficult to do very simple, low-key films.

Sometimes I make films about scenes other filmmakers would leave out, so I just make the film out of all the things they wouldn't put in. Poetry allows you to do this more than prose, for example.

Sometimes people are surprised to learn that most of the films I've made don't work. They've been released but nobody has ever seen them. Maybe 40 percent of them are very successful. That's a very high percentage; most people have maybe 10 or 15 percent of their films work.

Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.