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Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.

Movies suddenly became film and cinema an art form and terribly chic.

Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.

Movies are very expensive endeavors, and my first film was not particularly a money-maker. Quite the opposite.

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

Movements, like films, depend on word of mouth.

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life.

Mr. Disney and his staff were constantly scouting for great stories to bring to life on film

Mr. and Mrs. Smith. It's kind of a more of a comedic-actiony film. And then we just started Ocean's [12] Monday. Or I did anyways.

Multiplicity was a movie that tested really well. People seeing the movie really liked it, but then the studio couldn't market it. We opened on a weekend with nine other films.

Music and film are parallel experiences: they are linear, they are narrative.

Music and film are inseparable. They always have been and always will be.

Music, for the moment, has been this hidden thing for me. For the first time, I am master of something. I am not used by someone else, like in movies or pictures, where you always have the happiness or disappointment of knowing it's you seen through someone else's point of view. You go to see a film and half of the pretty scenes are not in it-the ones you liked. Living with this frustration all the time, suddenly music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything.

Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.

Music is a very integral part of the film, but it will not be as full of music as a Bollywood film.

Music is half the film.

Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.

My audience is a diehard audience. They are dedicated. My audience always follows me and sticks with me. They're the reason I'm still here - in the films and in stand-ups.

My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.

My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.

My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.

My brother knows more about film sets than I do, because he works at New York Film Academy.

My choices in films are spontaneous.

My contribution to film has always been negligible.

My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.

My family is not at all involved in television, or film, or theatre, or any of it, really.

My family was never cultural in that we never went to see plays, my mum wasn't very into films.

My father did think I should get interested in television. But I had very little interest in television and it wasn't something I wanted to do. I really never thought about going to work on big feature films in Hollywood. But when we made The Householder, Columbia Pictures bought it. Who would have ever imagined?

My favorite film is always the one that I most recently worked on.

My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat or in film's case 'run on' manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing.

My favorite film is Gene Tierney and Tyrone Power in The Razor's Edge.

My favorite phrase, that a friend of mine who worked on the Potter films and was a lot older than me would use in front of me, and I picked up from him many great phrases - the English have a lot of great idioms for sweating. I don't know why that is. But that's what we do. I feel like it's particularly our country; probably everywhere has a lot of idioms for sweating. He always said, "I'm sweating like a glassblower's asshole," which I always found an incredibly strange and yet vivid image.

My favorite scene in this film was the flying car, because that was just wicked.

My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

My favourite film is 'Le Diner de Cons,' a French movie.

My favourite films are in languages I don't understand.

My films always leave me unsatisfied, since I've always worked under fairly disastrous conditions economically.

My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.

My films are therapy for my debilitating depression. In institutions people weave baskets. I make films.

My films generally center around thousands of pictures being flashed in rapid succession to create the illusion of motion.

My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose.

My film (Black Venus) had been very emotionally draining and difficult because I had identified so much with the lead character, Saartjie Baartman.

My film is in French. It's not something folkloric. It's who we are. There's this tension about immigrants coming in. Will they learn French? Will they adapt? In this film, I'm on the reverse side because Monsieur Lazhar comes from a society where French is also the second language.

My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything.

My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.

My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying.

My films have to do with justice and many, many other concerns. That's the sad part of coming from my generation, and having been boxed in by those words like "identity.