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"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."
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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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"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."
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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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"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."
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"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."
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"I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor."
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"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."
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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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"Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror."
Horror

"We must admit that it is quite common that people do have affairs with their leading ladies and men."
Men

"We all want to be 20 again and have that first sense of love."
Love

"It started with the Godfather, this operatic violence. I don't know."
Violence

"I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him."
Life

"I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams."
Dream

"I'm not against watching myself, but I miss a lot of it. I've got two little kids who we don't let watch TV."
Kids

"I think theater is powerful. The best experiences I had in the theater are more powerful than the best experiences I had in movies."
Movies

"I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it."
Job

"The Spirit Awards are great too, they'll say anything because they're not televised. Another great drinking night."
Awards
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