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"Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show."
"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."
"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."
"Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes."
"It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about."
"In movies, you shoot out of sequence, so the issue of reality is really taken out of it."
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"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."
"Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that."
"What's really interesting about that is that a lot of these words that were incendiary in their time now seem almost harmless and laughable, because they have this archaic quality."
"Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films."
"That's a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that Hitchcock did. Vertigo was one of his great movies that was shot right here in The City and it's about a woman and the psychological twists and so forth."
"Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned."
"They are always very lax about putting restrictions on violence for children's movies, which I think is much more harrowing than sexuality for children."
"The danger is not so much in the economic structure of a society but in its intellectual structure."
"I shot a lot of close-ups on this movie 'cause there's like a dual mystery, she's searching through her haunted past to find some truth and she's also following an external mystery where she comes to think she might be the killer."
"To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas."
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