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"Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever."
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"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."
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"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
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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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"I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV."
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"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
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"I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest."
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"Film, I think, is my medium."
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"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."
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"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
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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 look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they're really sophisticated shows that we all love back home."
Home
"There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right way - so there wasn't really any improvisation on the set when it came to the bulk of the script."
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"Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won't get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn't until the second act."
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"American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones."
American
"I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating."
Humor
"I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack."
Lie
"We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that."
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"The only spoof I think is the title, which was just we thought of very early on and it kind of stuck."
Thought
"The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real."
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"That's what we wanted to get across in that moment, particularly when Shaun goes to the shop when he's all hung over. He doesn't notice any of the zombies around him just because he never had before, so why should he at that point?"
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