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"The best reason to make a film is that you feel passionately about it."
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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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"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."
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"It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape Town is an invitation to step into the past and recreate Los Angeles of the 1930s."
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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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"When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted."
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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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"On film you put all your energies into a single glance."
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"Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made."
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"The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment: the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. The new president and his first lady."
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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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"I had to take my makeup off at work every night. I wasn't allowed to do it at home because my mom said that when your work day is done, you're done with work."
Home
"I think Anna and the King is a look at Asia from the Asian perspective, reflecting the Asian experience, which is very rare."
Experience
"I don't know why people think child actresses in particular are screwed up. I see kids everywhere who are totally bored. I've never been bored a day in my life."
Life
"Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable."
Cruelty
"I spent a lot of time not in school, so I didn't have deep relationships with kids my own age."
Age
"I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day."
Home
"I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse."
Movies
"But now I really don't want to work unless I really, really care about a project."
Work
"You develop a third eye where you kind of know where they are in a room at all times but no matter how vigilant you are as a parent, at some point, you'll look around a room and can't find them and there's a searing pain that goes through your body."
Body
"The movies I made when I was 14 or 15, I have a hard time looking at those. Those were the awkward years. I don't know if anybody can look at something they did when they were 14 and not wince."
Movies
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