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" And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly. "

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" If you circle above Central Park at night in a helicopter, you're looking down at the most expensive real estate in the world. It's the American Monopoly board. "

" If studios don't get their money back, we don't have any movies. So it is important that films are successful, and I am fully supportive of that because I'm not just a director, I'm also not stupid. I've been in this business long enough and, to a certain extent, I'm a businessman; I know the importance of that. "

" Oddly enough, I find it quite engaging to be working with a female when I'm directing. It's kind of interesting. "

" I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial. "

" The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies, and I'm a better moviemaker than I would be writer. "

" Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape. "

" Life isn't black and white. It's a million gray areas, don't you find? "

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" The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that was great stuff. Of course, in those days, Technicolor was really Technicolor; there was no such thing as desaturation. Everybody looked super suntanned. "

" Sci-fi films are as dead as westerns. "

" I made the mistake of saying I was an atheist at one point, when I was doing 'Kingdom of Heaven.' "

" You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out. "

" Most people need the money all the time. "

" Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing. "

" MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects. "

" I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40. "

" I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film. "

" Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would. "

" Do what you haven't done is the key, I think. "

" I try to make films, not movies. I've never liked the expression 'movie', but it sounds elitist to say that. "

" I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.' "

" As soon as you're at the higher levels of budgeting, you've got to get the film made, and the only way to support the film is to have actors who can support the budget. "

" People have no idea how physically tough doing a film is. "

" What's interesting to me about Moses isn't the big stuff that everybody knows. "

" I've always avoided sequels, unless I felt there was something fresh. "

" Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. "

" One of the problems with science fiction, which is probably one of the reasons why I haven't done one for many, many years, is the fact that everything is used up. Every type of spacesuit is used up, every type of spacecraft is vaguely familiar, the corridors are similar, and the planets are similar. "

" A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly. "

" I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development. "

" I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly. "