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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.’

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’ve made several films that haven’t been shown.

The stakes are high on every film now because there’s the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People...

My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of reasons to do films, having to do with location, money, and first and...

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.

Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

I didn’t go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world.

As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.

There is a ban on Indian films in Pakistan, so that’s half of our market gone.

I don’t like to label films with a genre.

As long as you keep your budgets small, there’s a way of making films.

I’m a pluralist. I’ve always argued that as many different films as possible should be made.

Congress should make it so that all sex scenes in all films should be provided with a screaming baby sound track. That should help take away all the fun and may show a major decrease...

I’d like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

I couldn’t stand still at a desk for another year. I wanted to go out there and make films.

TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can’t.