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" I want a certificate that allows me to make as big a box office as possible. "

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" A hit for me is if I enjoy the movie, if I personally enjoy the movie. "

" Fundamentally, I always find that most of the films that I've put out are essentially the director's cut. Part of the process with a director's cut is the leaving behind of certain aspects of the movie that we don't feel necessary because they aren't part of the dynamic of the story. "

" In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture. "

" 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. "

" 'The Duellists' won Cannes, but Paramount didn't know how to release a film about two guys in bizarre breeches, waving swords around. I actually think it's a pretty good Western. "

" Audiences are smarter than ever; they know if filmmakers cheat an environment. "

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

" There has to be absolute trust between the tiger and its master, but its master must be the master - there must be no mistake about that. "

" Fire is our first form of technology. "

" People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at. "

" I watch a lot of 'National Geographic.' "

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" I think there are a lot of men who feel they're being emasculated by having the woman be in charge; I've never had that problem. "

" Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what is fundamentally in there is something that has to be paid attention to, in that they are, I would say, needy. "

" Choosing location is integral to the film: in essence, another character. "

" I think, at the end of the day, filmmaking is a team, but eventually there's got to be a captain. "

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

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

" I would like to have a bit of a break and do a comedy. "

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

" When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water. "

" Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing. "

Do The Right Thing

" If I have to, I'll go and direct theater and talk till the cows come home. "

" You just don't know when you get all the paint across the canvas how it will turn out. When you step back after you've finished, you say, 'This one is not so good. This one is good.' "

" I've got many letters from Muslim organizations thanking me for making 'Kingdom of Heaven.' "

" Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street. "

" I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds. "

" 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. "

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