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"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."
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"My movement from painting to film was a very conscious one."
Film
"Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous numbers of people."
Art
"I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell."
Love
"When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience."
Experience
"One should make morals judgements for oneself."
Morality
"I don't believe in censorship in any form."
Censorship
"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."
Film
"On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously."
Hope
"I like high impact movies."
Movies
"If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies."
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"My next film is always shaped by the last one... by the things I feel I didn't get right, or the things I like and want to try to develop further, but it always comes out of the last picture."
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"It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not."
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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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"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 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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"I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked."
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"I didn't have a lot of independent film connections. It really took until the digital film revolution came along that I realized that I could do it myself."
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"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
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"We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry."
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"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."
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