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"I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me."
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"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."
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"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
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"We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry."
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"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."
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"To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another."
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"I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera."
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"Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee."
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"I met Milos in 1967. I was working on a student film. And there is Milos Forman. So that's how I met Milos."
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"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."
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"I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy."
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"I became a loner. I became a mountain man. A lot of those things are very good qualities and they help you do your work, help you be singular and keep the artistic integrity of your work intact, but they don't make it very easy to live your life."
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"Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker."
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"Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage."
People
"'m a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them."
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"Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director."
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"I've always been able to survive by writing, though."
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"Everybody's a filmmaker today."
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"A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it."
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"Matter of fact, the style that people use today, I invented in a way."
People
"I've always had trouble with authority."
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