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In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying "the script" this and "the script" that, when they've never read the script any more than they've read the latest report on Norwegian herring landings.

In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.

In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

In television and films, you never know the fate of anything. Focusing on the present moment - not getting so caught up on what could happen - that's been my biggest focus. Everything's happening seemingly at once.

In terms of my own film experience, I'm definitely used to morose and very heavy, heavy dramas.

Instead of saying, ah, I don't have the money, just embrace it and do what we can do. And the scenes that we film and the characterizations in the scenes can come out interesting. And I really feel good about that, going into it.

In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene.

In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.

In the case of Game Change, the discussion in that film was how our politicians have become so much like celebrities - personality becomes more important than substance so that they can function in a 24-hour news cycle. So the question is, how do you feel about that? Is this what you want from a politician - somebody who's wildly charismatic, but has so little knowledge of substantive issues?

In the 10 years that I've been a professional filmmaker, the film part of the film industry is really disappearing, right in front of our eyes.

In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.

In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.

In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life.

In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life.

In the film business, it's basically honor among thieves.

In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and Id like to think the influences I picked up from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Sylvester Stallone and Jean-Claude Van Damme are visible in my work.

In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.

In the mid 1990s the Korean film industry was really open-minded.

In the film business, when you're young, you just want to work. But when you're older, it has more to do with who's involved with the project - who you're going to get in the boat with.

In the film industry, all the money is focused on television and the stupidity of American cinema.

In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process.

In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system.

In the middle of Beaches there's a scene from the "Laverne & Shirley" TV show so they see some history of my work in each film.

In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

In the United States there's not a lot of people interested in foreign language films. Every time, it's more difficult for foreign language films to survive here.

In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film.

In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.

In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it.

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.

I personally love to see films not knowing very much about them. When you see it, it's like a flower opening up. I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

I personally think Chimes of Midnight is a much better film than Citizen Kane.

I pick my feature film battles very carefully. They're going to be personal and they're going to take a lot of my energy. I'm not going to be some big production company and be Jerry Bruckheimer or something like that. It doesn't interest me.

I played a definite part in it. I guess the things that I played in films and the way the nudity and the love scenes were handled were really different.

I often get offered things that are so similar to things that I have done, and life is too short. When you make a film or a show, as you get older, that's a lot of time to be doing something that you're not absolutely invested in or in love with.

I personally like to do independent films.

I prefer film to TV because of the amount of time film affords you that TV doesn't (though theater is probably my favorite and the scariest place of all).

I prefer the countryside to cities. This is also true of my films: I have made more films in rural societies, and villages, than in towns.

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors.

I prefer to think of film making - you know, um, the sweat is supposed to be invisible. But a lot of sweat can go into making a film. But of course, if you enjoy doing it, you enjoy doing it.

I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing.

I preferred delivering my performance in person. I liked to be in control. You couldn't be in films.

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which is sad really.

I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

I read as much as I could, but really just spoke to Chris Chibnall and asked all the pertinent questions. That made me feel like we weren't going to do an off-the-peg Camelot, which has been touched upon in many films and TV series before. I really just picked his brain and, in doing so, I got fired up by tackling Merlin in a fresher angle.