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For me to see the film [Dream of Life] on a big screen - it's pretty extraordinary.

For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.

For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.

For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.

Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.

[Frank] Sinatra, to everyone, even Tony Bennett, was such a huge influence because he had mastered not only music, but film and radio.

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.

From 1980 to 1990, I shot more films than any other actor in the Screen Actors Guild, apart from Gene Hackman.

From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.

Fundamentally, Eva is just my life copied out onto film. I'm [still] alive, so the story hasn't finished.

Generally, I've never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to behave and how I fit.

Gene Wilder made his movie debut in "Bonnie And Clyde," starred in the Mel Brooks films "The Producers," "Young Frankenstein" and "Blazing Saddles," played opposite Richard Pryor in "Silver Streak" and "Stir Crazy" and portrayed the candy-maker in "Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory.

George [Clooney] and I do have the aim one day to be in a film where we say one nice thing to each other. Hopefully one day.

George Lucas was casting about and had heard favourable things about my work in Clockwork Orange and asked me to come in, which of course I did even though no one knew what the film was about!

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

Give me a part in a film, and I'll show you I'm not just a heartthrob.

Given the unprecedented ignorance of the Bible in contemporary America, it is likely that more young Americans will only know the Noah of 'Noah.' We can only hope that the film offers even a fraction of the wisdom of the original.

Gleaning is getting things that are abandoned. I did not abandon my early pictures, my photos, my early films. It's just going through my body of work as something I can pick from.

Go home, pick up your video camera, and make a film.

Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant

Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.

Good films can be made only by a crew of Dedicated Maniacs.

Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.

Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.

Growing up, I spent a lot of time on film sets all over the world.

Great art direction is NOT the same thing as great film direction!

Growing up I always loved films that transport you to another world and has things you never see in every day life.

Gypsies are, to say the least, underrepresented in literature and film.

Her Majesty's Secret Service wouldn't have me on the payroll.

Have you seen the film Histoires D'Amérique? It's also a mixture of humor and monologue, and it shows how the Jewish humor comes from drama and tragedy.

Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in. I feel privileged to be able to do what I love.

Hardly any filmmakers can just make anything they want. Obviously, there are some exceptions, like Steven Spielberg, but he has that mainstream mentality and the kinds of films he loves to make are the kind that appeal to this big, mass audience.

Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me.

History opens up new worlds to film-makers all the time.

Hollywood gave us far more Muslim terrorists in the Eighties and Nineties than it has since 9/11.

Hollywood usually doesn't have strong woman in films like that, and it's stupid, so for the most part they're usually being directed and written by men.

He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a great source of regret. I love spending time with him. He's always very open and effusive. His interest in you is genuine.

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.

Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.

Hollywood is no longer the top. I love going to the cinema. I've always adored the idea of being in great, epic films. But they just don't really exist anymore. It's a real shame. There's great auteurs that create small movies, but it's really hard for anyone to see them, and for them to make any sort of money, or for them even to be made in the first place.

Honestly, I do spend most of my time between films trying to get the next one made.

Hood films now are made by studios and have nothing to do with the reality they supposedly represent.

Honestly, I don't go out of my way to see animated movies. I'm mostly influenced by.. the films I tend to like are the small films, small personal stories. With characters you can believe.

Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

Horror films are very functional like comedies. The main thing with a comedy, the big question is "is it funny?" And with horror the question is "is it scary?

Horror films have been with us forever, so you can't say I originated that in any way, but it sort of brought back a classical way to make a horror film.

Howard Hawks said he'd like to put me in a film with Cary Grant or Humphrey Bogart. I thought, "Cary Grant-terrific! Humphrey Bogart-yucch.

Hopefully, I'll just get to be part of good films and work with good people, and that's how it will develop.