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"Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films."

"Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either."

"I put it to the great man [Hitchcock], the key to fictitious terror is partition or containment: so long as the Bates Motel is sealed off from our world, we want to peer in, like at a scorpion enclosure. But a film that shows the world is a Bates Motel, well, that's... the stuff of Buchloe, dystopia, depression. We'll dip our toes in a predatory, amoral, godless unive3rse, but only our toes."

"There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing."
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"You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost."

"I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten."

"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians."

"I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini."

"I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories."

"I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while."

"I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me."
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