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"The secret to film is that it's an illusion."
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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."

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

"We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed."

"Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums."

"Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire."
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"'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want."

"Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present."

"If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office."

"Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality."

"Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't."

"When you are a beginning film maker you are desperate to survive. The most important thing in the end is survival and being able to get to your next picture."

"You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead."
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