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"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."
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"When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries."
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"Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda."
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"Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made."
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"It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were."
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"The more sincere I could be, the better it would be for the film."
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"I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend."
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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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"We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!"
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"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."
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"I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and so forth. I've always been deeply, deeply in love with that kind of thing."
Love
"I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop."
Home
"I have pushed the boat out as far as I should in terms of taking on too many things. I'm getting older and I just could not take it any more. I am now monitoring myself very closely and I'm just trying not to get into that sort of state again."
Now
"You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that."
Love
"I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style."
Future
"Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good."
Business
"Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film."
Film
"It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue."
Cliches
"But happiness is no respecter of persons."
Happiness
"I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance."
Truth
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