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" The word 'comedy' implies slapstick. "

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" 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. "

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

" What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be. "

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

" If 'formulaic' is somebody who is unlikely to succeed starting down a process and succeeding - then isn't that what most films are about? And art films are about people who aren't likely to succeed and then don't succeed. "

" I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers. "

" Far from being dead, physical media has years of life left and must be preserved because there is no better alternative. "

" Business fascinates me. It's very creative. "

" The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence. "

" 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. "

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

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" I'm a yarn teller. My job is to engage you as much as I can and as often as I can. "

" I don't get attached to anything. I'm like a good antique dealer. I'm prepared to sell my most valuable table. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The digital and theatrical markets are two different marketplaces. "

" And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head. "

" 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. "

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

" I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie. "

" I come out of TV. I come out of live television, BBC drama: that's where I started first as a designer, then a director. Then I went independent TV, then television advertising. "

" '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. "

" There are some moments that are pretty distressing in 'Prometheus.' In fact, the last hour is pretty distressing. "

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

" 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. "

" Are we the first hominids? I really, really, really doubt it. "

" If somebody's given me X amount of dollars to fulfill a dream, they've got every right to actually say something about it. "

" I think Phil Dick was particularly interesting in that, first of all, he was a very modern man and a very modern thinker, but I don't know what demons drove him. "