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"It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place."
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"What you want, when you want it. As opposed to everything you could ever want, even when you don't."
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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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"It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone."
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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."
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"I want to do for rebounds what Michael Jordan did for dunks."
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"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."
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"If you want to be happy, be."
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"I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go."
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"And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used."
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"That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films."
Control

"The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life."
Life

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

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

"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

"What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff."
Movies

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

"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

"You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother."
Friendship
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