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

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

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.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

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.

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.

Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

Reviews about film acting are very... tricky, because movies are such a collaborative thing.

Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.

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.

Ridley creates a very immersive world, so when you walk up to a Ridley Scott film set you're in Ridley Scott's imagination, and it's a really comfortable, cool place to be.

Ridley Scott obviously an iconic director, he's made some fantastic films. Obviously a very smart, very tasteful, thoughtful guy. So yeah, I'm in good shape; got Ridley Scott with The Cartel.

Rob [Tapert], myself and Bruce Campbell sat in hundreds of drive-insnot hundreds, but tens of drive-ins, watching these movies and learning how they were made, and we started to make our own in Super 8. And that’s really how we got into horror films. After a while we learned to really like them, and the craft that went into them.

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.

[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].

Room 10 [a short film she codirected with Andrea Buchanan] nailed my personal theme: love and choosing to stay in the room when the going gets tough.

Roy Keane is Damien, the devil incarnate off the film The Omen. He's evil. Even in training.

[Russel Crowe] has been through a lot and had a lot of success. No one knew who he was when I worked with him 12 years ago. He's just come off a great film in Australia- Romper Stomper - and so it was good to see him again. Obviously, I'd seen him since.

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.

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

Short films don't go too far.

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