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"John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks."
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"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."
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"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
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"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
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"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
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"I think I can try the film world out for a while."
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"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."
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"John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks."
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"I guess I'm growing up in the film world."
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"Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter."
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"John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks."
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"Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste."
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"Most films I work on, the people making the film are constantly second-guessing the executives of the studio, the producer, and the audience. It is very hard to accomplish anything in that situation."
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"I think being a little nuts is helpful."
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"In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me."
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"If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun."
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"Even if I went off to some other career, I hope I would still be doing Coen films."
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"I like business and personal life to be distinct."
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"I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark."
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