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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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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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"Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know."
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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
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"Tyrants seldom want pretexts."
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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do."
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"I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records."
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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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"Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills."
People
"There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave."
People
"I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me."
Film
"No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not."
Writing
"Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language."
Writing
"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."
Life
"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."
Quality
"I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden."
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"Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker."
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