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" I was always aware that this whole Earth is on overload. "

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" I don't make films for other people; I make films for me. "

" 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. "

" Good FBI officers are not noticeable. You would never look at them. "

" I am in a constant stage of development. "

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

" 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. "

" How can you look at the galaxy and not feel insignificant? "

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

" I'm used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo. "

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

" I don't ever blink, honestly. "

" I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really internalized the Martin Sheen character, who was essentially fairly low key and didn't say a lot during the whole movie. But he thought a lot, so I always thought that was really great. "

" When you're doing a big movie, you're gone for 10 months to a year. "

" Technology will need to make many more huge leaps before one can ever view films with the level of picture and sound quality many film lovers demand without having to slide a disc into a player, especially with the technical requirements of today's 3D movies. "

" 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. "

" I'm fundamentally a positive person. Otherwise, I wouldn't be doing some of the insane movies that I do. "

" I am a science fiction enthusiast, really, deep down. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes you can do a TV show on a subject you just can't do in film. Either it's too long or studios will perceive it as not being commercial. "

" The great film editor is not a cutter, he's a storyteller, right? "

" I think over time I've learned to stop being a screamer and get interactive; otherwise, you get killed in Hollywood. I stopped being a screamer shortly after 'Blade Runner,' kicking doors and things like that, because I wasn't actually getting anywhere. "

" I'm an Englishman who did a film on Mogadishu, 'Black Hawk Down.' "

" If you ever have a kid who doesn't know what to do, stick him in art school. It's amazing what evolves. "

" 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 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. "

" There's still a lot of investors wondering what to invest in. And, of course, I think entertainment looks attractive when you read the few films that make these insane amounts of money. What they don't know is they don't always do that. "

" They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television. "

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

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