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I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.

I'm a huge baby and horror films just terrify me, they're very effective with me.

I'm a huge fan of 1930s horror - Universal films. I grew up with them and I just absolutely love them.

I make films about working class people.

I make films but I am trained as a designer. I come from this series of designers called critical designers, speculative designers.

I make film to make time pass.

I'm a Lebanese woman who directs films. That's not it at all. I am not really a woman nor am I really an Arab. Because I am not an apologist for women, nor of sentimental "world" films.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

I make my films like you're going to die if you miss the next minute. You better not go get popcorn.

I make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own.

I make films as a business, not as a cultural endeavor.

I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to.

I make unpopular versions of popular things. I make a horror film and it's not a horror film. None of my genre movies function as genre movies.

I'm always a little skeptical when I hear people promoting a film and they say it has something for everyone.

I'm all for typewriters, with instant carbon copies, and seeing films in cinemas.

I'm always a fan of a good horror film.

I'm always curious about how actors cry on film.

I’m always interested in films that are about extreme subject matters.

I'm always honored, but I think for every 100 of those that come along, one of them is actually going to happen. And, the fact that this was an offer on a major film that had a start date, was pretty impressive.

I'm always very interested in going and discovering a young director's films.

I'm always watching films. The Academy pretty much sends me every film that's ever been done. I enjoy watching them, especially with the people I know.

I'm a massive fan of Sunshine. Oh my God, I love that film.

I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.

I'm always very aware of the physical challenges of work. I train much more than I did when I was in my twenties, and I've done some very physical films, and I always get properly prepared for them and get as fit as I can.

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

I'm anxious to make another film.

I'm a pretty cliché actor in that I hate watching myself on film.

I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.

I'm as interested in photographing the film crew as much as the actors and actresses.

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.

I'm aware that a film is different than a play, and that a film isn't going to be the filmed record of the play. It's its own separate entity, and I've come to peace with that.

I'm certainly not the lead of the film 'Wonder Woman' and I don't have a problem with that.

I'm cheaper than Anthony Hopkins. The other actors they asked to play Gandalf wouldn't go to New Zealand on that money for that length of time. I thought it would be a bit of an adventure. Tony Hopkins didn't think it would be an adventure. Tony is part of Hollywood. I'm an eccentric English actor, and there's a lot of us around.

I'm developing the stuff all the time. There's a film in my head. I'm imagining a film.

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

I'm doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.

I'm definitely a big believer in the notion that a heightened style can get you closer to an authentic human experience than so-called realism on film. There are films I love that have kind of a muted or realistic style, but for me on any given day I have more moments during the course of a day that feel like a Fellini movie than I do a Cassavettes movie.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.

I mean, I'm new but I've always been very interested in film making process and I've been lucky enough to work with film makers in my past that have been very encouraging to let me hang around. I get so emotionally vested - that the producer part of me was natural.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

I mean they're making remakes of my films and I'm not even dead yet! Why would you want to make a remake?

I mean look at Antichrist. He's not making films to be liked by everyone, so why is this so surprising coming from Lars von Trier?

I'm from a Lebanese-American family. And I've been had lot of contacts and - with Arab-American community, especially Arab-American filmmakers and actors and so forth. It's a community that, a minority that really hasn't been heard from enough. And so many of the stories that are told about Arab-Americans these days are just negative portrayals in the news, but also in television and film. So we're - we set out to try and offset some of those stereotypes.

I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19.

I'm finding now more and more that nudity is so rarely serves the story in any film.

I meditated before I hosted the Oscars, I meditate before I go on stage, I meditate in the morning and lunchtime when I'm on a film set.

I meet all these American filmmakers that film for months and months, and it's a mystery to me. I couldn't make a film like that. I have to be very clear in what I'm doing and where it's going, and be very disciplined about what I film.

I'm going to keep making films I believe in. Whether I am successful or not is besides the point.