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"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie."
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"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."
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"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
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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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"I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV."
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"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
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"I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest."
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"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
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"A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin."
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"I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue."
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"I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express."
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"But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on."
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"I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out."
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"This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes."
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"What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering."
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"We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course."
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"Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea."
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"The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power."
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"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie."
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"Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do."
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"The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized."
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