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"I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s."
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"They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant."
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"Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air."
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"You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well."
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"I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female."
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"Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly."
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"It's actually pretty complex, because there's two levels of reality in the narrative. One is what really took place, and the other is Spider's poisoned version of what took place."
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"The Sonics I found later and that was pretty important."
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"The size of my head though is pretty abnormal."
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"At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent."
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"I did tell security to make sure you stay and watch him pretty closely."
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"To do that I try and keep myself in pretty good shape physically and I try to lead my life in such a way that I'll be able to be as strong at the end of the movie as I am in the beginning."
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"I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director."
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"I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work."
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"The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work."
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"It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct."
Business

"I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet."
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"One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well."
Life

"Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that."
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"And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit."
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"The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized."
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