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"I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film."
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"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."
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"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."
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"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
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"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
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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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"I think I can try the film world out for a while."
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"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."
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"John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks."
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"A week before shooting, they told me, You don't have the part, yet. We're still trying to find a handicapped kid who can act. Either that or we break your legs."
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"I don't know how long I'll be trick or treating. Maybe I'll be 80 years old and still trick or treating."
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"I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film."
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"I shut up and keep my ears and eyes open."
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"When I worked on Altar Boys, they wanted to see us having fun. The four of us would have fun on set and steal each other's lines, and mess with the director."
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"I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules."
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"The whole family is tight. We all really love each other."
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"I think people are going to keep asking me about Macaulay. Some things change and some things don't."
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"The Professional Children's School, it's for professional kids, so if you wanted to ditch, you could just write, Audition on a note and leave. I didn't really like school all that much."
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"They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs."
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