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The showrunner relationship in television is what the director relationship in film, there's really no more important relationship.

The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all.

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.

The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.

The State Film Authority will be there for film as industry only, as is the case in all the other states, except Victoria. Victoria is moving more now into supporting non-commercial films.

The strange thing is I never thought I'd do films.

The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.

The stuff about film being a collaborative medium is no joke.

The success of the film is down to the crew.

The success of the film should depend on its budget.

The talented actor needs craft. When you do a stage play, you do it once each night in chronological order. In a film you're going to wind up doing a scene 15-20 times, just by the nature of the process. If I tell you a joke once, it's funny. The more times I tell, the less funny it is. How do you get to the point where you can laugh again? You also may have to cry again and again.

The tendency in the media is to portray everyone in the film industry as sex-starved creatures. Please spare us.

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.

The technology available for film-making now is incredible, but I am a big believer that it's all in the story.

The theater and film, they're like two completely different mediums.

The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from the theater which you can never get from films. Making films weakens you in some way. With the theater, the work itself is a regenerative process.

The thing about a motion picture is that look of film on a big screen takes you into a magical.

The thing about film is it is a very precise form. You know if you have it and you know if you don't have it. There's not really a middle bit where you're like, "I think we kind of have that scene.

The thing about film-making is I give it everything, that's why I work so hard. I always tell young actors to take charge. It's not that hard. Sign your own cheques, be responsible.

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

The thing that is most important is to feel like you're at the front of the line, to be prime or primer. I definitely never wanted to say that in the films, but that's where it comes from.

The thing that I'm just scared to death of is that someday I'm going to wake up and bore somebody with a film.

The thing that's so exciting when you're making a film is that it can be anything and there are no limitations on it.

The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.

The traditional ways to make a film, the traditional ways to share a film, have all collapsed. There are no gatekeepers, per se, any more, and anything can be done. Truly, I feel that.

The truth is I don't see a lot of movies. I see the Oscar films. I see the films that are sent to me and a few films throughout the year.

The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.

The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.

The way I see it, I belong to the film as any other department.

The whole point of making a film is to tell a story. That seems to be forgotten. Many films today just rely on special effects and they have an explosion every five minutes. Who needs it? It's rather repetitious.

The werewolf film is a strange thing.

The whole film business was built on immigrants: Billy Wilder and Michael Curtiz and all these hefty lads.

The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.

The whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set. Especially when you're doing visual effects and you don't have a lot of money to mess around, which we didn't, you have to really preplan everything. Pretty much every shot in the film was figured out months before we got to set.

The whole thing that drew me to doing an animated film is that you're freed from the physical limitations of your physical body. All of a sudden, you get to be something that has nothing to do with the fact that I'm a 6'4", lumbering dude, and that is really exciting.

The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.

The work is the work. The work is not me. I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films. Even though it's my voice, I'm a storyteller.

The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like small or big, or quiet or expansive. It's all just one loud shout.

The wonderful thing about film is that you have something that has a beginning, middle, and end, and you have a concrete amount of time to shoot it.

The worst question really comes from the attitude of the asker and it usually comes in the form of "What was your inspiration for the film?

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.

They said, "You get $2 million to make the film, if you're not in it. If you are in it, you get $5 million to make the film." There was no way to make the thing for $2 million, so I made it for $5 million. And then, it turned out there was no way to make the thing for $5 million. That's when it got weird.

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

This film [the Cell] certainly is not meant for the girls who sing along with my songs.

This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.

This film "Phantom" takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.

They were showing clips from my earlier films. All I could see was this beautiful young woman who was anxious about whether she was too heavy or if her nose was too big. I felt like saying to her, 'Just relax and it will all be OK.