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"My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished."
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"I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon."
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"We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20."
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"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."
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"I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic."
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"You are not an active creator of the film."
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"If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings."
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"It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film."
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"I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me."
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"I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise."
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"You are not an active creator of the film."
Film

"I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business."
Business

"I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites."
Movies

"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."
Acting

"I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon."
Movies

"Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies."
Movies

"We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman."
Creativity

"I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way."
Art

"Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different."
Nature

"No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did."
People
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