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" 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. "

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

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

" 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 like a film such as 'American Beauty,' and I like 'Spider-Man.' "

" I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why don't you go to the dance with the boys?' And I'm going, 'No, I'm perfectly happy.' I think my parents thought I was definitely weird. "

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

" 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. "

" The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic. "

" Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything. "

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

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" I unfortunately do suffer for my art. "

" Once, I got slaughtered after 'Blade Runner' by Pauline Kael: three pages of slaughter. I was so offended, I would never read any more press. "

" I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do. "

" The word 'comedy' implies slapstick. "

" It's hard writing screenplays. "

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

" It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more. "

" 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. "

" Fire is our first form of technology. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up. "

" 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. "

" Cast is everything. "

" Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult. "

" 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. "

" I've gradually realised that what I do best is universes. And I shouldn't be afraid of that. "