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Lawrence Halprin

"Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like."

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"Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like."

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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 wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans."

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"You are not an active creator of the film."

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"What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year."

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"I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest."

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"Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good."
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"The whole memorial is for different senses... seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling. I probably would have come up with something different if I had not lived through it."
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"Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city."
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"And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense."
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"One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off."
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"And I think one of the tasks that I always feel is how to get that vision out of them. Not exactly what they want, but what they want to accomplish for themselves or their community or their family."
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"I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn't think about this very much because I'm almost weeping when I think about it."
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"I always say to young people when they ask me how I work, I always say to them, the only time you've ever going to do something good is if you have a good client. And by good I mean all kinds of things."
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"The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act."
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"One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level."
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