Film-Makers Quotes

For me, I am a huge fan of Sofia Coppola and Lynn Shelton. I love Lena Dunham, like everybody else. I love Kathryn Bigelow.

The film-maker Alejandro Jodorowsky - his films are hard to watch - they're so dense and rich - but they're probably the best things ever made. And Spike Milligan, who was light years ahead of the rest - I played some of his stuff to Jack Black once. He'd never heard of him, so watching him listen to Spike for the first time was just hilarious.

When I began my career, I had films with the biggest film-makers in the country.

Ultimately the social change has to come from the people who make the movies, so the people who make the movies have to look at the landscape and say to themselves, "Well, you know, these things are changing, and I'm okay with their having changed, and I think it's okay to start reflecting those changes through the movies we make."

I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and partly because that is the basis of the film industry. That's where the film-makers come from, it's where they start and sometimes its where they should have stayed.

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

I've worked with people from Fred Zinnemann, John Huston, through to Richard Fleischer, all of those boys from Hollywood and so on, and Sam Peckinpah and then the Mike Radfords.

I'm inspired by film-makers such as Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Orson Welles.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

I met two of my movie heroes. I met Tom Hanks, and I met Steven Spielberg. Oh and Quentin Tarantino.

Cinema leaves a deep impact on the society. As creative people and entertainment film-makers, we have to be responsible at some point as we are also the conscious citizens of this country.

Louis Malle is maybe one of my favorite directors, but I love Tarantino.

Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

I think that no matter whether you're Quentin Tarantino or any other kind of a rebel, or whatever, everyone who makes movies still wants to win an Academy Award, because it's like the Pulitzer Prize or the Congressional Medal of Honor.

The Cannes film festival is about big-budget films but also remarkable films made in different political regimes by film-makers with little resources.

Things that matter are a great story, entertainment, how the lead part moves the story forward and who the directors are.

This indication of audience interest is good for all horror movie makers at any budget level.

I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

I am interested in seeing 'Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota' by Vasan Bala, so I would like to work with him, and I also would like to work with Vikram Aditya Motwani, Abhishek Chaubey, Vishal Bhardwaj, and Kabir Khan.

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

A lot of directors don't bother to go back and look at their films, but I do.

It is hard work composing a song for a film and showing it to makers: 50% of the tune remains the same, and the remaining 50% is changed to suit the script.

The question I always ask is: 'Where are all the women directors in America?' You know, where's the female Martin Scorsese, the female David Lynch?