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"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."
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"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."
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"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
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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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"I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV."
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"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
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"I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest."
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"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
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"A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin."
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"I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue."
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"I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express."
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"All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about."
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"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
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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."
Help

"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
Solitude

"I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century."
Love

"It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely."
Conversation

"All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed."
Poetry

"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
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"And it's impossible for me to read Henry James."
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"But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person."
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