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"It allows you to say things that sound very dramatic and get away with it. If you had characters in modern fiction say the same things as they're driving down the street in an Oldsmobile they'd sound ludicrous!"
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"Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."
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"I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries."
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"I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done."
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"It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill."
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"You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said 'Parking Fine.' So that was nice."
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"The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility."
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"Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot."
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"Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated."
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"I used to think that driving, sleepless, ambitious labor was what you needed to succeed."
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"I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused."
People
"I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company."
Career
"I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries."
Driving
"It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important."
Time
"Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film."
Trust
"First cuts are a bitch for a director, because it's been so many months and you put your trust in your editor and you're going to see your film assembled for the first time. You look at it and go, This is terrible. I hate it."
Trust
"It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking."
Life
"It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?"
Film
"I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective."
Personal
"That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you."
Trust
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