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"I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien."
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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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"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."
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"What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff."
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"There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives."
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"Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies."
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"We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama."
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"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."
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"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."
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"I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it."
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"My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time."
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"I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence."
Victory
"I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat."
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"The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them."
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"One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular."
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"I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights."
Thought
"Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!"
Movies
"They say I'm a revolutionary, but they're all wrong."
Wrong
"Film has to describe and show."
Film
"I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film."
Movies
"As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks."
Family
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