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Jim Harrison

"I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read."

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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."

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"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience."

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"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

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"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."

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"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"

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"I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'."

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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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