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When the BBC decided to bring Doctor Who back as a feature film a few years ago, one national newspaper ran a poll to ask its readers who should be the new Doctor, and I topped it.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.

The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad.

Scream was great for what it was. For a horror film, it was intelligent, it was funny, it took a laugh at itself.

I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset.

And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them.

I was going to go make a film in Greece. if they caught you with this much marijuana, they threw you in jail, no questions asked, and I was trying to stuff it in my deodorant bottles. I thought, what I am doing?

My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.

If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings.

It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me.

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.

Well I would never say to anybody that Warren Beatty got fired, but uh, I think he and Quentin fell out of love, and I think Warren told Quentin to hire me for the film.

Tim also has enough confidence so that it always looks like a Tim Burton film, but it really is collaborative. You're allowed to do it your way but of course he's always going to choose his way.

My experiences in film and theatre in the States have been much more rigorous-in England there's an environment of, Let's try this.