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"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
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"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."
Future
"Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing."
Being
"I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible. I want them to be so powerfully realized that we cannot imagine them apart from their physical and social context even when we see them in empty space."
Space
"I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth."
Society
"Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance."
People
"You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters."
Actor
"Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer."
Living
"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."
Being
"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
Film
"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks."
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"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."
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"It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not."
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"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."
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"I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise."
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"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."
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"I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked."
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"I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself."
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"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
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"We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry."
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"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."
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