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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

'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.

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 [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.

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 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'

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

[Martin] Scorsese says one of the great things he loves about it is how Mark can't get the right shot and he's killing people because he can't get the right shot. It's an example of what film-makers are like.

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

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.

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

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.

Maybe it's a compliment to the film that you can't do that with it, that it can't be explained in 15 seconds.

Maybe by his second year in Hogwarts, Harry Potter will learn the trick to making a movie this good but don't bet on it. It's one of the best films of the year.

Maybe It's not the biggest blockbuster film, but there will be some people that will see it, that will be debating it, that will be questioning their own sense of spirituality. If the film resonates, then I have succeeded in what I set out to do.

Maybe I could do some indie film and get my kit off. I'd never say never.

Me and music are not good friends, so I do my best to augment the music part [of my films] and come up with something worth watching.

Me too." I agree fervently. "Every film should definitely have a message." Which is true. I mean... take the Lord of the Rings movies- they've got loads of messages. Like "Don't lose your ring.

Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.

Mexican cinematographers Gabriel Figueroa and Emilio Fernandez were students of both Sergei Eisenstein and Toland. Their exteriors and lighting were gorgeous. And the films Ingmar Bergman did with Sven Nykvist were exceptional.

Modelling, fashion and film have all encouraged me to learn more about issues and to feel empowered enough to do something about them.

Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.