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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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"A lot of action movies today seem to have scenes that just lead up to the action."
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"The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better."
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"The fact is, it's hard to release movies."
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"There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch."
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"You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them."
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"For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid."
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"They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up."
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"I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s."
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"Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me."
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"Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns."
Influence
"I'm a historian in my own mind."
Mind
"Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room."
Film
"My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid."
Family
"To me, America is just another market."
Market
"I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie."
Character
"It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back."
Faith
"The good ideas will survive."
Creativity
"A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here."
Truth
"When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it."
Writing
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