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" What I learned very quickly is that if you get it right in the first two or three takes, it's not going to get that much better. "

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" I like the X-Men, otherwise I wouldn't be doing it. "

" I was inspired by all of it. 'The Avengers,' 'Harry Palmer,' 'The Prisoner,' 'The Man from UNCLE,' 'In Like Flint.' Of course, there's a huge shadow of Bond - Bond is the monolith of spy movies - but it's not just about Bond; there were a lot of other things that influenced me. "

" If you do something that's not pigeonholed, it gets thrown into the 'We don't know what this is' bin, and so let's not talk about it so much. "

" I will never sign anything which makes me have to do more than one film. "

" So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing. "

" You can't please everyone... If you make a good movie, that's all that matters. "

" When I did 'Stardust,' I was fighting the studio for things I believed were right. "

" I'm as conservative as they come. "

" I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is. "

" Music is half the film. "

" I don't believe in development. I believe in pre-pre-production, so when I sit down with an idea for a movie, I'm thinking I'm going to make this film. I don't think about anything else. "

" I've always loved 'Bond.' There were two franchises that I would always have dropped everything to do as a director. 'Bond' was one; 'Star Wars' was other. "

" And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way. "

" I'm a big believer that it doesn't matter what you call your company, nobody ever notices. "

" I'm not an actor. I'm really bad in front of a camera. It wouldn't work. "

" I think you should make a movie that has an audience. "

" I tried to buy the script of 'Hancock.' I loved it. The script was far darker and edgier than the movie. "

" I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on. "

" You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book. "

" High-concept one-liners were huge when I got my start in the film industry. "

" You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to. "

" I think it's easier to make a film with 200 million dollars than 960 grand. "

" I'm a Star Wars fanatic. "

" Most of the movies nominated for Oscars put me to sleep. "

" If it's scary, it's supposed to be scary. If it's funny, it's supposed to be funny. That's all I try to do. "

" My theory is that there's a knee-jerk reaction against technology in movie making. "

" I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor. "