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" Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies. "

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

" The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" I am in a constant stage of development. "

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

" The people who really resurrected 'Blade Runner' was 'MTV.' "

" I knew exactly what to do on Alien, it was funny. "

" There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming. "

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

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

" I have a healthy competitive nature. "

" I'm a very practical person. "

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

" Churchill strikes a note in my life because my father worked on Mulberry Harbour, which was the code name for the temporary concrete harbours which were towed across the Channel to make the D-day landings in France possible. "

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

" Sacred texts give no specific depiction of God, so for centuries, artists and filmmakers have had to choose their own visual depiction. "

" There's a big film industry in Egypt, and quite a big one in Syria, and there's a big Muslim community in Paris. "

" I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema. "

" Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done. "

" 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. "

" Your landscape in a western is one of the most important characters the film has. The best westerns are about man against his own landscape. "

" Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe. "