Robert Towne: 'Self-absorbed, narcissistic, manic depressive, mean-spirited because he's jealous and angry that nobody knows who he is....How can I not identify with that?'

Q'Orianka Kilcher on The New World: 'I fell backwards. Because the mud suddenly felt so heavy...that was probably one of the greatest mistakes that happened on set.'

Stephen Frears on Mrs. Henderson Presents and Career Highlights: 'It's not bad to make an innocent film about naked girls.'

Ang Lee on Brokeback Mountain: 'If I think about messing with the western genre, that's very scary. I'd better not think about it--stay with a love story.'

Henry Jaglom and Victoria Foyt on Going Shopping and Career Highlights: 'Some women are very joyous about shopping and life, and some find it very troubling.'

Neil Jordan on Breakfast on Pluto: 'It was like freeing me from the three-act structure, which just seems to bedevil movies these days, y'know what I mean?'

Scott Coffey on Ellie Parker: 'Watching Naomi become a big movie star, and then we go back to shoot again. That was kind of--pretty surreal.'

Jeff Daniels on The Squid and the Whale and Career Highlights

Ira Sachs on Forty Shades of Blue

Rachel Weisz and Fernando Mereilles on The Constant Gardener

Lou Taylor Pucci on Thumbsucker and Career Highlights

Mike Mills on Thumbsucker

The 4400 Cast & Exec. Producers

Michael Pitt on Gus Van Sant's Last Days and Career Highlights

Gus Van Sant on Gus Van Sant's Last Days and Career Highlights

America Ferrera on The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Career Highlights

Sir Michael Caine and Katie Holmes on Batman Begins and Career Highlights

Morgan Freeman and Gary Oldman on Batman Begins and Career Highlights

David S. Goyer and Charles Roven on Batman Begins

Simon Abkarian on Yes and Career Highlights

Sally Potter on Yes

Joan Allen on Yes and Career Highlights

Matthew Vaughn on Layer Cake, Bond, Harry Potter, and X3

Daniel Craig on Layer Cake and Career Highlights

Kim Ki-duk on 3-Iron and Career Highlights

David Duchovny on House of D

Joan Chen on Saving Face and Career Highlights

John Duncan on Batman and Robin and Career Highlights

I'm everywhere. I'm like poo.

I was more interested in, with Batman, a little bit more mystery-type stories than him being a vigilante-type character.

Danny Boyle on Millions and Career Highlights

I figure out the ending first. I figure out where I want the character to be emotionally at the end of the story. And with most of my stories, the character—particularly a Batman story—he's devastated. So I know I got to get there.

Marc McClure: 'I don't look at Jimmy as a geek. I just looked at him as a wide-eyed person who's very interested in life. Which is a great quality.'

Elisha Cuthbert and Joel Silver on House of Wax and 24

When I began in comic books, artwork was not being returned to the artist. There were no royalties. There was very little respect for the artist, and some artists didn't even sign their names. We've changed all that.

Robbie Stamp on The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Kristopher Carter, Lolita Ritmanis, & Michael McCuistion on Batman: The Animated Series and the subsequent DC Tooniverse

Ming-Na on Mulan II and Career Highlights

Niels Mueller on The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Lynn Collins on William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice and Career Highlights

Michael Radford on The Merchant of Venice

Alejandro Amenábar on The Sea Inside and Career Highlights

I have a need [to] express myself through different characters and at the same time have a chance to see the world with different points of view, may I agree or may I not agree with them. So, what's better than that?

Shane Carruth on Primer

Mike Leigh on Vera Drake and Career Highlights

Imelda Staunton on Vera Drake and Career Highlights

Dylan Kidd on P.S. and Roger Dodger

Marc Forster on Finding Neverland and Career Highlights

Laura Linney on Kinsey, P.S., and Career Highlights