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"Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing."
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"Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about."
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"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."
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"It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable."
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"I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing."
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"We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!"
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"I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it."
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"I've never made a film using dialogue or speech."
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"I'm a film doll. But I'm enjoying it. So I'm gonna keep doing it."
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"I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell."
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"We didn't know about the rest of the world. We just knew the pictures that we saw on TV, and it was so different that we wanted to try to imitate that, to a certain extent."
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"The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight."
Weight
"Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation."
Time
"I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies."
Love
"I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing."
Time
"Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing."
Film
"There's nothing worse than finding yourself in a situation, a very demanding piece of work, and knowing that you're not a true ally to the person who's in charge of all that."
Work
"When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it."
Business
"The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot."
Time
"How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie."
Life
"At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."
Age
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