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"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."
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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 get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York."
Reality
"First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy."
Work
"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."
Film
"Memories are doing funny things to us."
Fun
"Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political."
Experience
"And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know."
Control
"Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know."
Humor
"I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival."
Politics
"Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters."
Life
"Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students."
Now
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