People who LIKE movies have a favorite. People who LOVE movies couldn’t possibly choose.

I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.

People never forget two things, their first love and the money they wasted watching a bad movie.

Everything ran perfect. Popcorn was popping. Films were rolling. All good stuff.

I’ve often accused my grandchildren of never having seen one of my films.

The only place where you can be a dictator and still be loved is on the movie set

It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in...

I’m always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.

I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat.

The only thing I do worry about is that the more films I do the more visible I am going to become as a personality because of press and because of the sheer quantity of...

Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

Jerry: Oh, you don’t understand, Osgood! Ehhhh… I’m a man.Osgood: Well, nobody’s perfect.

Most feature films are 35-40 shooting days.

I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot.

My private life has nothing to do with my films.

I’ve been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.

I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

I honestly don’t understand the big fuss made over nudity and sex in films. It’s silly.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

One aspect of my mum’s personality that has influenced me is her love of Hollywood and the golden era of black-and-white films.

I definitely feel sorry more people don’t get to see my films. They aren’t inaccessible, and if people got the chance to see them, I know they’d like them.

I like my films to have a certain amount of realism – something that’s thought provoking and intelligently written. More than the amount on the pay cheque, I look for a level of respectability as...

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.

I have always tried to make profitable films because people’s offices shut down if films fail, and I will do everything to avoid that.

People don’t read any more. It’s a sad state of affairs. Reading’s the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it’s someone else’s vision, isn’t it?”[Interview in The Independent,...

Never take no for answer, and try to make films that turn you on.

I seek speed, clarity, and a practical approach in people I mingle and work with. I can’t see myself working in films that stretch beyond maximum four months.

I think my films are always political, even if I don’t put explicitly political things in them.

Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone,...

Audience can live without a movie but a movie cannot live without an audience.

Documentary films are created in an inverted funnel of declining possibility.

The quality of films out there depends on how much responsibility we’re willing to take. I try to play women who are positive and heroic.

If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more pictures with people being blown to bits with bazookas and automatic assault rifles with no gory detail left...

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

I’ve made many films and only a few times I’ve played real people.

After I learn more English, I’ll work hard and make more films.

I make films for the 16-year-old in myself sometimes.

Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

I am happy with all the films I’ve done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.

The quality of writing attracts me to films, also who the other actors are, who the director is, where it’s being shot. Any or all of those things. But if the writing is really appalling,...

I don’t watch much TV or films, but I’ve watched Cameron Diaz.

I personally like to do independent films.

One of my favorite horror films of the Nineties was ‘Event Horizon.’

[on Rouge] This is a film about communication that disappears. We have better and better tools and less and less communication with each other. We only exchange information.

I loved films of the ’70s with those antihero protagonists who you don’t know if you can get behind because their behavior is really questionable.

I don’t think violence on film breeds violence in life. Violence in life breeds violence in films.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

I don’t see scarey films. I certainly wouldn’t go see my films.

I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I’d prefer doing films where you don’t have to leave your brains behind.

European films were what it was about for me – the sensations I needed, the depth, the storytelling, the characters, the directors, and the freedom that you can’t really find in American films.