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"I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is."
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"Actually I did, because I saw the film like everyone else, ten years ago and I remembered some of it. I just wanted to see it, to kind of remember the tone a little bit."

"You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman."

"This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film."
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"We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets."

"There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival."

"When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film."
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"If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction."

"Stanley didn't shy away from true humanity or from the ugliness that all people are capable of."

"We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me."

"I bought all the stuff, but nothing was as satisfying to me as using the Rolleiflex because it was one shot."

"It was the baseball fantasy of a lifetime - to be able to sit on the bench with all those professional athletes. I got to take my son along because I wasn't sure I would be able to play with them."

"There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took."

"You hope and pray that you'll get involved with a director that you understand and who has the same sensibility as you do and knows how to push you and bring out the best in you."

"So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light."
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