Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.

I don't want to be made pacified or made comfortable. I like stuff that gets your adrenaline going.

Something becomes personal when it deviates from the norm.

Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people.

It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie; the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't.

Cinema has the capacity to be so physiological.

There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.

Films don't cause violence, people do. Violence defines our existence. To shield oneself is more dangerous than trying to reflect it.

I need to have my hands on the DNA of a film.

I’m not good enough for Duke.” “I’m good enough for you.

Stop looking at what everyone else has! You have to figure out who you are before you can be anyone!

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

We should always look back on our own past with a sort of contempt, as long as the tenderness is there - but please let some of the contempt be there.

there are two kinds of music - good music and bad music. Good music is music that I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear.

By starting from the ground and tapping into the absolute, uncheatable truth of nature we can make ourselves better

Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that.

I'm hard to get rid of." He smiled. All Tegan's suspicions about the boy came flooding back. "So it seems," she replied icily.

The customer deserves to receive exactly what we have promised to produce - a clean room, a hot cup of coffee, a nonporous casing, a trip to the moon on goassamer wings.

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'