I’ve walked out of films. But for every film I’ve ever walked out of, I’ve probably walked out of 500 plays. – Mike Leigh
I’m doing a record that has a story that runs through all of the songs, and then there is also a film that goes along with it. – Michael Pitt
I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth. – Jim Coleman
I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei’s ‘Sunflower Seeds’ at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving. – Kate Fleetwood
This whole Oscar thing is so political. It’s about how much a film grosses, and who’s in it, and how well it has been promoted. – Lisa Cholodenko
We found in ‘The Matrix’ that people were willing to accept something more. It was a smarter film. – Joel Silver
There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you’re empty and you can’t give anything more to it anymore. – James Marsh
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope. – Jean-Jacques Annaud
‘Baahubali’s success augurs well for the Telugu film industry as a whole. It has opened up new markets. – Mahesh Babu
I’d like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they’re not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters. – Martin Scorsese
I think this last film I finished, ‘The Butler,’ is the closest I will come to as a work-for-hire. – Lee Daniels
McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension. – Kevin Whately
When Tim Allen made The Santa Clause, I thought that was a delightful film. It took a modern sensibility but layered onto it a kind of sentiment. – Leonard Maltin
