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"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."
Crime

"These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig."
Man

"Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some."
Work

"Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film."
Life

"There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating."
Nothing

"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
Motivational

"A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it."
Film

"Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime."
Media

"In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director."
God

"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
Pleasure
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"Before I started doing the film and when I found out I was going to be doing it, I just decided to pump up on the whole cardio stuff. Just in terms of stamina."
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"It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not."
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"If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings."
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"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."
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"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
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"My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good."
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"I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise."
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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 think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film."
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