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If you look at anybody who's had along career, if you look at the choices they've made - even if the movies haven't worked - they've always worked with great filmmakers.

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

I've made movies that cost less than one car chase.

I'm a filmmaker and I'm proud of the movies I've made. But in the background of my life I was also very involved in the creation of the sport.

I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.'

I've been in the movies for 50 years, I've made 130 some-odd movies.

I've made 122 movies, and I daresay there's a picture of mine showing somewhere in the world every day.

I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.

There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor.

Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.

The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince.

I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies.

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

Life is short. I'm 47 years old. I've got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. I've made a ton of movies in my life, but so what?

I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.

We've been remarkably lucky in that we've been free to make the movies we've wanted to make the way we've wanted to make them. They've all been made for a price.

Coming Home had been made before and Apocalypse Now and Deer Hunter, different kinds of movies.

Quite honestly, it's too tough to get your movies made and then also to get out there and sell them.

Well, honestly, the films I personally like to go see are smaller, more character-driven pieces, so that's why the movies I've made have been smaller, more character-driven movies.

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'

I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'.

I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

But I do believe that there's going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it's just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.

China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.

The movies I've made at a certain time of my life were exactly right for the stage of my life, the frame of mind I was in at the time. Each character I've had to play has been me in that time in my life.