"Even if I loved the script, the director has to be right because it's all about the filmmaker. It's their vision. They're the ones that go back into the editing room and reassemble the film."

"I do feel like there's a spirit and a tone you can set that lets people know that they're appreciated for being there. It's a sense of spirit that I think every film should have."

"It's such a commitment, making a film, you're really dedicated, it's your life, that's all you do for that period of your life."

"What drives me is what I'm putting out into the world, and I like to make films that people can connect to, or they can escape in."

"After I did 'Orchids,' I enrolled back in film school and did a million and a half workshops and worked with great professors and people, trying to hopefully get better."

"Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs."

"Joss Whedon is a hero of mine, and what he's done for women in film and television, particularly when it comes to writing female roles that would typically go to a man, is awesome."

"As far as I'm concerned: Chris Pratt for president! He'd save us."

"I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward."

"He has that play-making ability, ... We looked at film of him all summer, and a lot of great teams couldn't tackle him."

"Film spectators are quiet vampires."

I think when you work on a Woody Allen film the actors become a real company, probably more than on any other film.

I've always loved animation and animated films.

We see death constantly on film.

'The Lair of the White Worm' is quite a strange film. It's difficult to be good when you're saying lines that have been translated from Spanish to English by someone who speaks French.

Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've been getting hundreds of letter from Japanese girls. They definitely have a special place in my heart.

I've driven people mad on films that I've made - I want more takes; I want to try new lines. Then I want to interfere in the editing process, and I want to interfere in the advertising process - everything, everything. Pretty much Barbra Streisand in trousers, I am!

The moral of filmmaking in Britain is that you will be screwed by the weather.

With 2 movies opening this summer, I have no relaxing time at all. Whatever I have is spent in a drunken stupor.

Well, you know I have an office, my film offices. So I know that syndrome. I fancy offices, so there must be something wrong with me. Even the window cleaner intrigues me. It's a very sexy environment.

I don't really understand why everybody doesn't want to direct. It's an absolutely fascinating combination of skills required and puzzles set on every possible level, emotional and practical and technical. It calls upon such a wide variety of skills. I find it completely absorbing.

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.

Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage.