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"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."
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"My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished."
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"I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon."
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"Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied."
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"We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20."
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"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."
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"I've never made a film using dialogue or speech."
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"I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic."
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"I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do."
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"You are not an active creator of the film."
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"If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings."
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"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
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"And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody."
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"I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now."
Poetry


"And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping."
Art


"I don't think of myself all the time."
Time


"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Love


"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
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"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."
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"And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it."
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"And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so."
Poetry
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