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I'd already started directing short films when we were doing 'Lord of the Rings,' then videogame projects.

I love films-they are like paintings.

I don't think the subject of a documentary film should be producers on it.

In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.

I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.

In documentary films, being able to be a storytelling and embrace film as an art form - while being very clearly connected in trying to help make the world a better place - is really important to me.

Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me.

I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I was still living at home.

In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

There's a documentary film-maker called Werner Herzog, who's a German film-maker. I really dig his stuff, I'd love to chat with him.

A good film is also a documentary

The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer.

I don't like zombie movies, they're just plain silly.

To be honest, you have to do a big Hollywood film to get enough money to do a good independent film!

I'm an unusual director in that my cut is usually shorter then the final released film. I like short films.

I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.

I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.

I love film; I'd love to do as many films as possible.

I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.

Alternate between short films, long form films, with or without stars, small budget or big budget films. Basically a filmmaker needs to be flexible.

Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.

That's what the movies do. They don't entertain us, they don't send the message: 'We care.' They give us lines to say, they assign us parts: John Wayne, Theda Bara, Shirley Temple, take your pick.

I didn't start publishing literary texts until I had left Iraq. At the Academy [of Cinematic Arts] I was busy with short films.

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

I ultimately have faith though, that good films will find their audience.

I don't think good films have messages.

After college I funded my short films with acting roles in film and TV. I learned my craft through the great opportunities British television gave me as a director.

A lot of the ancient Norse myths and legends are the basis of a lot of the sci-fi, fantasy films out there. Telling these stories in a contemporary medium, it's all good.

I graduated from high school with the art award and I had made a ton of short films, but it was before DVDs with director commentary.

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

When I couldn't speak English, I loved silent films circa 1914-1929, Abel Gance being my favorite director.

Maybe I could do some indie film and get my kit off. I'd never say never.

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.

Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.

I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would go to the movies several times a week.

In silent films, quite complex plots are built around action, setting, and the actors gestures and facial expressions, with a very few storyboards to nail down specific plot points.

I don't think a lot of really good films get seen.

I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish.

I love film. I am very blessed to be making movies.

I love film, very, very much, and I always want to go back to it.

I usually play character parts in Hollywood films.

Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with my parents' story and what they went through.

Silent films were, I think, more different than we know to sound films. We think of it as simply that we added dialogue and in actual fact I think it was an entirely different art form.

Now I’m the go-to-girl for silent films.