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"I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece."
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves."
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"Everybody's a filmmaker today."
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"In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit."
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"The designs were based on quite a lot of research of what a movie musical is, filtered through the eyes of today. If we'd gone strictly with the '20s, the movement would have been impaired."
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"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
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"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."
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"I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future."
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"A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'"
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"My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes."
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"You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown."
Film
"I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds."
Moderation
"No matter where you're going it's the wrong place."
Wrong
"I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years."
Internet
"I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin."
Family
"Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out."
People
"The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate."
Life
"I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano."
Love
"Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it's all about making money. They know people want to see what they've seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow."
Money
"The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce."
Living
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