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"And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head."
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"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."

"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

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"So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies."
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"I think if I'm going to do a science fiction, I'm going to go down a new path that I want to do."


"What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be."


"MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects."


"People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at."


"But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it."


"Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing."


"Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything."
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