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.

The only fear I have is that I will wake up one day and nobody will allow me to do films. This is a fear every actor has.

I wanted a mix of ‘B’ films and first-class films, because I don’t look down my nose at ‘B’ films. We have a very good collection of Randolph Scott westerns.

Everything makes me nervous – except making films.

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.

The theatre has always been voraciously omnivorous. Dramatists have always raided every medium to find grist to their mill: myths, folk tales, newspapers, novels, films, works of art of all kinds.

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films – although I think they do have plots –...

Films are a part of my being, they don’t define me.

Well the Bombay film wasn’t always like how it is now. It did have a local industry. There were realistic films made on local scenes. But it gradually changed over the years.

Barbara Stanwyck movies drove me nuts, like ‘Ball of Fire’ and ‘Double Indemnity.’ I used to go cuckoo when I would see those films.

I think one of my very favorite films of all time was with Peter Sellers when he played Chauncey, the gardener. Being There.

I like L.A., but I think what’s changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

Just watch any husband arguing with his wife about something insignificant; listen to what they say and watch how their residual emotions manifest when the fight is over. It’s so formulaic and unsurprising that you...

For me, I don’t even like to promote my films but I have to because it’s in the fine print of my contract.

I am really easy to scare, and I don’t enjoy watching spooky films.

To make independent films, you can’t think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.

A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a good movie can make you feel alive again, in contact, not...

If I’d lived like my characters, I would have been dead before I’d made 16 films.

I think that films about faith made for faith-based communities have a certain tactic.

I don’t use any techniques; I’m not trained to be an actor. I just enjoy working in films.

I like films to have something inside, I don’t mean a message, I mean something from the soul.

After film school, I embarked on trying to promote independent films. But after a while, I realized I was breaking my back doing six-day-a-week shoots, 14-hour days, and no guarantee of distribution.

Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China’s aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.

There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.

Working with Terry Gilliam was magic – I’ve been watching his films since I was little.

I like the rain. It washes memories off the sidewalk of life.

When you look at golf films before us they’re all – garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you...

I do films that I like. I have done comedy, romance, everything, and I always like to do it differently from the previous ones.

It’s the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it,...

I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there’s a place for films that pry more into the human condition.

Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique… completely separate entities.

I love those films where I feel the director’s confidence – where he doesn’t need to overdo it with the shots and the cuts.

If you look at who drives the box office numbers at these films, it’s men.

When I entered films, I rose to the top. In business, too, I want to be at the top.

Particularly in the final stages I always find that I’m rushed. It’s dangerous when you’re rushed in the editing stage, most of my early films are flawed in the cutting.

Nothing’s really changed since the Harry Potter films came along.

Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples’ lives, and sometimes that’s very gratifying. But still, there’s this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

We’re lucky enough, especially in these ‘Madagascar’ films, to be working with some of the best people in the industry, who are not only great actors, but great comedians and improvisers and filmmakers. And they...

I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can’t really take myself completely out of the movies I make.

It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.

I just think TV is becoming more and more interesting in a way. Films are more and more derivative, you know, whether it’s ‘Transformers 2’ or ‘Shrek 5’, or it’s yet another iteration of another...

My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that’s always my goal.

England is strictly class-based. What’s surprising is how many films are still made with a load of people in silly frocks running around gardens and talking in middle-class accents.

I’m hooked on Polanski’s films, his psychological thrillers. I love ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ I love ‘Repulsion.’

When you’re making under-million-dollar films, it becomes so much about actors’ availability. When you’re using big actors for small films, you’re in second or third position to the big monoliths.

But you know, as you say, the original versions of my films are getting out there, slowly.

Authors of books are not given very much control over the films that are made from their books.

The public’s nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.