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.

You gain and lose different things in different mediums or different sectors of different mediums. There are liberties you get on tiny indie films in terms of not having to be designed toward a marketing...

Producing is making films without having to work sometimes. It’s still making films, but it’s a different job.

I turned down a lot of films.

And the people I’m best friends with on the films are not generally the actors.

I hate most people. And I don’t want to, it’s an awful way to be. But the human race gives me no comfort. I find myself turning to books and films for comfort still. It’s...

As long as I am acting, I will do only Telugu films. I want to take Telugu films to the world. Everyone should talk about our films.

I make films about working class people.

In a perfect world, I could be doing some bigger films and balance that with some independent films because they seem to be the most challenging and unique.

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.

I have to say I’ve been lucky in that way in that I’ve been able to go from different films and different genres with different challenges.

It’s incredible that they censor films. It’s sad.

I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that’s all.

Australians just don’t see that many Australian films, but it’s also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies to remember that audiences want to be entertained, and people are entertained in...

Social Note: I have sought escape in the Prytania on more than one occasion, pulled by the attractions of some technicolored horrors, filmed abortions that were offenses against any criteria of taste and decency, reels...

The fact is, I’ve been releasing records longer than I’ve been releasing films, or at least exactly as long.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

All of the films I’m doing are young, urban, high-concept, funny films. That’s the zone where I’d like to play and have fun in.

I’ve not used a score in any of my films so far.

[As for the] blur … I can’t allow one of my films to go out that way; it would be foolish. And given what the scene is about, it would be very distracting.

I don’t make films that are easy to market, unfortunately. I think that ‘Pi’ was the easiest one, because we had that symbol to stick up everywhere, so that was a good gimmick, and created...

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

Following ‘Urumi,’ I did get a lot of offers from Malayalam, but frankly, managing films in several industries can become a little hectic. So I decided not to take them up.

I’ve never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films.

A lot of people think I must be weird because of the films I’ve done. I get that.

He was a tough player. You would always see him on those (John) Elway highlight films.

I like shows or films or books that have messages but don’t beat people over the head with them.

I spent a couple of years doing American films. I did a few.

Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them through the movie, that is not what moviemaking is, that is...

Franchises aren’t to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films.

My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

I’ve been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.

You can make as many films as you like, but if nobody wants to put them on, what’s the point?

It’s funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen.

We were trying to make a movie that was funny, but also trying to be smart about being funny. We just wanted to make people laugh,. If you want to make a comedy you just...

But no one should have the right to manipulate my films in the first place.

I hope to be 70 and sitting at the table with journalists, talking about my films.

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

I feel I’ve made the transition from model to actress, but I’m not that secure about it. Lauren Hutton, Jennifer O’Neill – we all know that a few films don’t mean all that much.

The films that I love are very straightforward stories, like really old-fashioned stuff.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart.

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can’t afford to buy weather.

I’m really easily affected by horror films. I have pretty strong reactions to them.

Do we root for Michael Corleone in the ‘Godfather’ films? I think so, even if he is a monster.

I think ‘Rockstar’ is more dear to me than any of my other films.

The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.