Every director should take an acting class.

Magic has lived an extraordinary life as a champion athlete, passionate activist, and highly successful entrepreneur. The impact of Magic's life on the game of basketball and beyond is undeniable.

I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

I am not looking to maintain an image.

I think they should make it a felony to criticize a film product. Particularly my film product. It's anti-American.

I just love photographing things and putting them together to tell a story.

You need to come up with a reason to make a movie, separate from the commercial side.

Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally.

I never got into being an artist. For me, it's always more research, storytelling, maybe technological experimental. It's more like a laboratory setting.

Film festivals give less of a platform to mainstream films because they already have a market.

The DVD does make it a little easier for myself to trim things that are otherwise very difficult to let loose of - knowing that they'll make it on the DVD.

With each character in a movie, I'm looking for a human being. I'm looking for a person. And to me, I'm looking for a person that's full of strengths and weaknesses, a person that's full of successes...

Just making 'Black Rainbow' was like my minimum requirement before death, so that I could die with some honour and not in total shame.

I don't consciously aim at shooting movies in different locations but if my films feature never-seen-before locations, then why not.

My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks.

My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

The standard in Hollywood, when you check in, they have that sort of area-like vignette behind the front desk with someone sleeping behind glass. An actual person.

I would like to make a film in the four South Indian languages.

I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.

I'm better suited to be a director, I think. I see myself as the general author. I hate the word 'auteur,' because it sounds so solitary when filmmaking is anything but solitary.

I am lucky to be a film director. I can create, express. It proves that I am still alive and the Khmer Rouge did not succeed in destroying me.

I remember, after 'Tumbleweeds,' my friend and I wrote 'Pride and Glory.' I was just about to get it going. I had some really great actors attached, and New Line was going to make the movie, and 9/11...

My zombie films were all sort of satirical, with political messages. So I was doing them inexpensively and quietly off in left field somewhere.

For film fans to support 'The Imitation Game' means so much to me, the entire cast and film-making team.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple of years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

I hate being safe. There's a lot of easy rides and boring films out there, but I've stuck to my guns. It's not an easy path.

'Que Sera Sera' had a very unusual rhythm. It was a challenge for me to pick up Rahman's beats and translate them into dance steps.

I have never, ever talked about my orientation or sexuality because whether I am heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, it is my concern. I refuse to talk about it... I have not been brought up...

There's something about actors - not stars, but actors - if they have the character, and someone is pushing and shoving them to be the best they can be, they enjoy that.

We need a peaceful, modern Cambodia. We need to achieve that. It's not easy.