"Making movies is all about instinct."

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"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment."

Jason Statham, British Actor

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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

Meryl Streep, American Actress

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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

Dean Koontz, American Author

Movies, Majority

"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."

Jason Statham, British Actor

Movies,

"When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it."

Alexis Smith, Canadian Actress

Movies, Old

"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience."

Joss Whedon, American Writer

Movies, Decisions, Television

"For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English."

Zhang Yimou, Chinese Director

Movies, English, Years

"Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume."

Sean Young, American Actress

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"Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in."

Jared Harris, British Actor

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"After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world."

Movies

"To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them."

Work

"I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young."

Parenting

"Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you."

Actor

"I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor."

Actor

"The audience wants to be attracted not by the critics, but by a great story. You must deliver to the audience emotion - and when I say emotion, I mean suspense, drama, love."

Love

"I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters."

Life

"If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters."

Film

"It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good."

Media

"These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time."

Time