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"Cinema has become a global economy, totally international."
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"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."
"If cinema is a woman then certainly there are many shores."
"Cinema in India is like brushing your teeth in the morning. You can't escape it."
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"My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot."
"I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels."
"My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was."
"I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European."
"It was important on The Shipping News to have my house far enough away from each location so I had this time in the morning to think about my shots and still remain open to surprises once I got to the set."
"I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much."
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