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Maybe when I stop making movies, Ill understand my work better. – Dario Argento

The thing thats protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits. – M. Night Shyamalan

I do other sorts of things. I act in other peoples movies. I direct operas. I write books. – Werner Herzog

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and thats it. – Thomas Lennon

Well, the thing about great fictional characters from literature, and the reason that theyre constantly turned into characters in movies, is that they completely speak to what makes people human. – Keira Knightley

I didnt know this about myself, but when Pirates of the Caribbean came out I realised that I didnt enjoy a huge amount of recognition. I didnt react to it well, but I think life is about finding out who you are and what you like. So I started doing independent movies and art-house films instead. – Keira Knightley

I use to watch like maybe three or four movies, five days out of the week. I was a movie buff, but I really didnt know what it was like behind the scenes, or the whole political process of it. – Michelle Rodriguez

I want to work with great directors. I want to work on good material with good actors. Ive probably done 20 movies at this point and a lot of independents. Its been an incredible ride and I love it and Im just going to keep going and doing what Im doing. – Famke Janssen

I love scary movies. The Shining and Dont Look Now are two of the best. – Famke Janssen

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. Id say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, Id only be in action films, but Im interested in a more varied career than that. – Famke Janssen

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I dont sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I dont. Theres always a good reason for doing something. – Famke Janssen

I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. Hes a very talented director. – Famke Janssen

And anyway, its only movies. to stop me I think theyll ahve to shoot me in the head. – Ridley Scott

Ive been in enough movies to know that when youre on the set and you start shooting, youre looking at playback and you get a sense of what its going to be like. – Mark Wahlberg

Its fun to go to the movies and be scared. – Selma Blair

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore – which is a great shame, but Id love to make a black-and-white movie one day. – Sam Mendes

I dont think of it as a competition – which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly. – Sam Mendes

I wanted to keep exploring… Im not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film. – Sam Mendes

I dont think Hollywood was trying to do anything with me. In fact, they lost interest pretty quick. I think I got lucky, briefly, in the 90s, and it just so happened that those movies were the opportunities that came my way. Then it just kind of stopped. – Janeane Garofalo

I think movies are a directors medium in the end. Theater is the actors medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance. – Sam Mendes