Werner Herzog Quote

One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working with an actor who the audience already has a relationship with actually helps you in a film like this.

Sam Mendes

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.

Henry David Thoreau

• Man

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

Ralph Fiennes

• Belief

I wouldn't want to be married to me, but luckily Tom Cruise does.

Nicole Kidman

I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it.

Cameron Diaz

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

Andrzej Wajda

Before I thought there was a common denominator between my films - as if all my characters were sisters - but I'm not so sure now.

Juliette Binoche

I try to see my films just once. it's like a dream you've been through when it's been intense, and you just have to go through it once more just to make sure you've had it.

Juliette Binoche

Making films is really hard, and if it has anything that's a little bit out of the mainstream, then it's really hard to get made.

Salma Hayek

I want to be like Tom Cruise from The Outsiders and go on and do amazing movies for a long time.

Ashton Kutcher

When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience.

Atom Egoyan

Strangely enough, I've always believed that my stories were mainstream stories; the films are narrated in a way that you never have a boring moment.

Werner Herzog

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

Peter Jackson

It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.

Rowan Atkinson

• Difficulty

My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!' (On her split with Tom Cruise).

Nicole Kidman

The audience will have to focus on the visuals... But they had silent films before talkies arrived, and people went to see them.

Mel Gibson

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

Sam Mendes

And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.

Dustin Hoffman

I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you.

Atom Egoyan

But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.

Reese Witherspoon