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I cry a lot, you know. Which is very difficult for a man to recognise, but I do. I cry in movies, you know, just watching movies.

There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I do like to forget teach me things.

I remember being a kid and sleeping over at my friend's house and staying up late and watching Nosferatu. Vampire movies are supposed to be secret and bad. They should be rated R.

The nature of the movies is different than it was five years ago, and they are all driven by the possibilities of CGI, which means you can make anything happen on screen that you can possibly desire.

It is just as hard... staying happily married as it is doing movies.

I have made over 20 movies, and 5 of them are good.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It is not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there is a sort of man and boys situation. You are a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it is harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with.

I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005, 2006, 2007, I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me, so to speak.

I have been involved with violent movies, and then I have also said at a certain point, I can not take it anymore. Please cut it. You know, you've got to respect the filmmaker, and it is a really tough issue.

We did not care if we were well-liked as long as the movies were good. We served the movie - that was our master at Miramax. In our second incarnation, the movie is still the master but we are getting the same results in more subtle ways.

When we talk about Oscars, it is almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like The Artist that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?

Last year, when Black Swan, True Grit and King's Speech all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies and not do the same old you-know-what.

My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

When people ask me what makes movies great, it is the material.

All my movies got screwed up because of my personality.

Over the years with movies, I have given directors notes.

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

I have had such a great track record in making a huge profit when the movies are smaller.