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American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible.

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

American films, it's a money-making industry. And in France, you can find great respect for cinema as art.

A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have.

A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers.

And film acting is incredibly tedious, just by its nature. It's incredibly, mind numbingly slow.

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.

Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film.

Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.

Anybody I'd spoken to who'd been in Siberia said 'would you please put mosquitos in your film,' that's what everybody knows about, they're big and they're nasty.

Anybody who pitches a story or an idea for a film to an executive, whatever the latest hit is, is what you're comparing it to.

And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.

'Angel Heart' was one of my favorite films.

An Ingmar Bergman film would probably owe a sizeable bulk of its import and its direction and its quality to the directorial end and to the director because it's uniquely a Bergman film. But that again is not the general - no, that's much more the exception than the rule.

Anybody can make a movie, if you have the will. The digital revolution has made it very inexpensive to make a film. Anybody who wants to can do it.

Anybody that makes films knows the film is never finished. It's abandoned or it's ripped out of your hands, and it's thrown into the marketplace, never finished. It's a very rare experience where you find a filmmaker who says, "That's exactly what I wanted. I got everything I needed. I made it just perfect. I'm going to put it out there.

Any film that you make, it's a very high end game of musical chairs ... but that's just the nature of filmmaking. You do the dance with a certain actor.

Anyone can buy CG technology. It's not that it's easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they're incredibly hard to make.

Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.

Any time a new horror film comes out that looks appealing, I'm always excited to go see it.

Any film is at least better than real life.

Any time you die in a film, it's not real, so it's all kind of fun.

["Aquarius"] it had a bit of a rocky arrival in cinemas because we were given the 18+ rating, which did not make any sense in terms of the Brazilian rating system for a film like this.

A really good horror film has a story.

Apart from the National Film Awards, I don't see any other award ceremony that I should give value to. My personal experience about these award ceremonies is that I don't trust them. I have no faith in them so I would prefer to stay away.

A remarkable documentary that's also one of the most beautiful nature films I've seen.

Archetypes are always [in my film-making]. It's sometimes interesting to just flip them a little bit and see the underside.

Artists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films.

As a filmmaker, I make the films that I love, that are in my heart. That's what I care about.

Approach every film with the same enthusiasm, regardless of its budget.

As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind.

As a European filmmaker, you can not make a genre film seriously. You can only make a parody.

As a gut thing, my next project is always the complete opposite of the thing I've just done. So if I've spent a lot of time doing film, I might then do some radio.

As a kid, all I wanted to do was be in a Viking film.

As a kid, when you're in a film with somebody, you look up to them, you know?

As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.

As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive.

Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

As a producer you have creative control, and that's what is so exciting about it. At the end of the day, if you have made a film it's totally your responsibility, and if it works it's your responsibility and if it doesn't it's also your responsibility.

As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

A Separation is another film that I think is extraordinary, and one of those things that feels like it's from another planet, much like Terrence Malick's movies did: at a certain point, you feel like he's an alien from another planet telling us and looking at us and showing us how we are. I also really, really love Jerry McGuire.

As far as behind the scenes, I absolutely want to get into making my own films and producing my own things.

As Carrie Fisher once said in a film, everyone thinks they have good taste and a sense of humour.

As far as my notoriety or whatever, I haven't been the star of a hit film.

As far as I'm concerned, the coolest word in film is 'cult.'