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"I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me."
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"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."
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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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"We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry."
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"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."
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"To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another."
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"I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera."
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"Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee."
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"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."
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"I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos."
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"Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back."
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"The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy."
People
"I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school."
School
"You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again."
Opinion
"When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'"
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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."
Creativity
"I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school."
Ability
"Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up."
Family
"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."
Time
"They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family."
Family
"I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement."
Education
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