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"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."
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"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."
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"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."
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"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."
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"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."
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"I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor."
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"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."
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"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
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"The whole thing of weight, I guess it's because there is a wider fascination we all have with weight."
Weight
"I see a lot of movies. I love films as a spectator, and that's never obscured by the part of me that does the work myself. I just love going to the movies."
Love
"I made the film in spite of Harvey, not because of Harvey."
Film
"At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do."
Age
"I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe that I'm somebody else."
Self
"Being at the centre of a film is a burden one takes on with innocence the first time. Thereafter, you take it on with trepidation."
Time
"The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot."
Time
"Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from."
Work
"I feel less often compelled to do the work than I was in the past."
Work
"How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie."
Life
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