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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

Some people receive medication in order to properly deliver films.

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

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

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

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

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

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 your characters in films do things that you wouldn't do. You're not playing yourself all the time.

Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public will come. It's completely spontaneous. It's a hazard.

Sometimes you film in your hometown, sometimes you go halfway across the world.

Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, "God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything." And then you see the close-up and it's so nuanced and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.

So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

So my methodological approach is to draw on many different features in highlighting different facets of the novella (and the opera and the film).

So we can sit with Lee Unkrich and Andrew Stanton, and all the other folks and experience what the film is going to be like. And then we go away into a room, and we talk about what worked and what didn't. And then we take all of those findings and we do that whole process again.

So that's Godzilla, he's ultimately going to get you regardless of what you do. Maybe the people who made the American Godzilla film were scared of that. They didn't want him to represent that, to represent something we couldn't deal with because, "We're American's, we can deal with anything".

Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to build a structured story and retain idiosyncrasy.

Starring in a science-fiction film doesn't mean you have to act science fiction.

Stop helping everyone else make their films, and enlist them to help you make yours. This is an exaggeration, but the point is - you are the one person who cares the most about your project, so you have to take the leadership in driving it forward.

Speaking personally, I want my films to make money, but money is just fuel for the rocket. What I really want to do is to go somewhere. I don't want to just collect more fuel.

Stage is the most exciting. Film is lovely, because it's like a family.