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"You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change."
Change
"Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it."
People
"When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy."
Acting
"Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all."
Experts
"For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard."
God
"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."
Time
"It seems astounding to me now that the video games are perhaps as important as the movie themselves. And people will spend 2 or 3 years obsessing about the video game in exactly the same way that they'd be obsessing about the movie if they were working on that."
People
"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."
Acting
"If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'"
Life
"Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited."
Comedy
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"It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not."
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"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."
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"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
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"My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good."
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"I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise."
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"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."
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"I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."
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"I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked."
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