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"What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before."
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"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."
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"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
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"The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get."
"Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie."
"Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously."
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"They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show."
"I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong."
"When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students."
"They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors."
"The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do."
"I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair."
"Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily."
"And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks."
"I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting."
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