"There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again."

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"There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again."

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"I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince."

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"I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter."

Love

"I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film."

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"I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened."

Truth

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Control

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Movies