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"As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over."
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"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

"Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums."

"Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire."

"I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire."
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"Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it."

"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."

"As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting."

"The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses."
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