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It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.

They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office.

I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that.

I didn't set out to make this kind of picture. It just came my way. But its been going on for me for 16 years now and its wonderful for an actor to work consistently. There seems to be an insatiable audience for this type of film.

I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them.

Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.

I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.

I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me.

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film.

In an action film you act in the action. If it's a dramatic film you act in the drama.

The men were all scumbags, but the whole point of the film is to show the development of that. Each guy is going in there to have a good time. By and large, these men are career men, family men, and you just see the deterioration of them.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

Boy, I'd hate to shoot on tape or disc or whatever the hell they're talking about. I love film.

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film.

I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.

I like to work. I enjoy once a year, doing a film.