I’ve worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That’s a lot of work.

I’ve been writing for years and developing my own films and editing with a friend of mine in Australia.

There’s nothing gratuitous about my films.

There were many, many other ‘Django’ films following mine, with other actors and directors, but there is only one ‘Django.’

‘Alien’ is one of my all-time favorite horror films – that has a great monster.

For me, the most absorbing films are those that address big questions and real ideas but embody them in small examples that we can appreciate and comprehend.

If they made films in Palm Beach, actors and actresses would be much better dressed.

It’s not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it’s not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.

The golden rule has always been to remake films that were not a success, if you saw something in them. To remake a movie that’s already a milestone offers audiences very little that they haven’t...

Films are all about decisions, and that’s what I love.

I’m very into fantasy films.

I’ve always described parts as tattoos. For actors our tattoos are in the form of films.

The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.

I haven’t been to a movie for three months of Sundays. I gather from what Carolyn reports that Hollywood now produces false entertainment: unmitigated violence on the screen; snickering, laughter in the audience.

For seven years, I made films in the cinema verite tradition – photographing what was happening without manipulating it. Then I realised I wanted to make things happen for myself, through feature films.

I’m shy by nature and don’t like talking about myself, and would let my films do the talking.

The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film...

In Quebec, we’re less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We’re less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of worshipping false gods, of failing to understand ourselves and misinterpreting the behaviour of others, of growing unproductively...

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

. . . push that neurotic girl . . . in front of the camera . . . and that whining mop would magically blossom into a warm, lovely, poised and confident actress.” Capra obviously...

I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.

I’m hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

I was one of the horses of the Louis B. Mayer stable, and I thought the films I was given after my Academy Awards were not worthy.

I must stick with Chinese language films.

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

I had pictured journalism as I’d seen it in the most ennobling films, where the reporter battles for the truth, propelled by conviction, and is triumphant. There are journalists who fit that ideal.

I quite like post-apocalyptic films, things like ‘Mad Max’ for instance, because they are so full on and there is something quite cleansing about the post-apocalyptic because you can see where we all think we’re...

Most films are written and made with a hero around 35, or even 25.

Ray Romano gets the films’ emotional moments, John the funny ones, but Diego makes it all happen. Diego is still a leader smart and strong, but he thinks he may be getting soft’ because of...

The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It’s not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that’s never really been...

Animated films are so precisely engineered – right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes – how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?

I always wanted to design for films.

I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory, meretricious or even callously sentimental attempts at poignancy (something about...

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, ‘no, I went to films.’

Keep it in mind, every second Ilive, is only for you. Everybreath I take has your name on it.And every moment I spend, is sothat I can be with you forever.The day you cease to...

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn’t want to do.

I really enjoy working on small films.

I enjoy scenes in films, which do not have the pressure of the story so much… and it flows. I’ve tried to go in that direction.

Modern politics is like watching a film with only bad guys. It soon starts to get really boring, because one of the points of stories is that they should have some sort of redeeming character,...

My films, no one else will do.

We all do films believing in them completely, but sometimes, the audiences like what we like, and other times, they don’t.

It’s a lot of fun to be a part of films that you don’t exactly know how they’re going to turn out.

I don’t like zombie movies, they’re just plain silly.

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...