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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'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend."

"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."
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"There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?"
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"If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know."

"But for me, really, the written word is always stronger than film."

"I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film."
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"One of the reasons I don't see eye to eye with Women's Lib is that women have it all on a plate if only they knew it. They don't have to be pretty either."

"The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement."

"If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words."

"Training is fabulous because it gives you a basis, a strong structure, so that when you're unbelievably nervous and you think that you can't get a word out, you will get the word out."

"A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all."

"French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that."

"Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with."
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