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" At one time, I would actually ride around to movie theaters to check the lines. "

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" GM is a highly collaborative organization; we rely on a whole tier of suppliers for everything that we do. "

" I have a short attention span. "

" Making a movie is like a marathon, and commercials are like sprints - they're equally satisfying, but in different ways. "

" The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through. "

" I've had a love affair with every movie I've ever done. "

" I wake up every morning bolt upright, whether it's a commercial, not that that's a good thing or a bad thing, because I shoot commercials in between movies. But whether it's a commercial or a movie where I'm shooting a major train wreck, the thing that worries me most is when I'm doing a performance thing. "

" There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance. "

" A lot of actors talk about doing their homework, but very few of them do it. "

" We don't ever want IT to be the thing that holds GM back. "

" Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing. "

" My stories are pretty simplistic, but the characters are always complex and always right, and that comes from the script and my research and reverse-engineering what I find in the real world. "

" I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language. "

" Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England. "

" I always get everyone prepared so there aren't so many arguments on set. I have a policy that the first thing I do in the morning is go over to the trailers and discuss exactly what we're shooting that day. It's time-consuming, but it reduces the chances of 'misunderstandings' on set. "

" We come from a tough, working class background, so we're very tight. "

" It was very hard breaking into the film industry in Britain. I had been to art school, and I was painting and doing commercials. And I did some of the very first rock videos. "

" We had a brilliant upbringing, and we never wanted for anything, even though we went through highs and lows of finances. "

" Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed. "

" I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit. "

" I'm always dictated to be what I want to do, and I have a love affair with every movie I've done, and some of them have turned out good, and some of them have turned out not so good. But regardless, the making of them, or that love affair, has always been a great experience. "

" New York is vertical - all skyscrapers. "

" I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing. "

" If you look at my body of work, there's always a dark side to my characters. They've always got a skeleton in the closet; they've always got a subtext. "

" What always leads me in terms of my movies are characters. "

" Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. "

" I'm a plagiarist - I always look back at other movies, and I steal, but I steal well, and I reinvent. "

" Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. "

" I make a movie because it's something that inspires me. "