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"It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines."
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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 get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."
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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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"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."
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"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."
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"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."
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"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."
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"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
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"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
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"I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film."
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"Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society."
Business
"It's much easier to work with an unknown."
Work
"Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego."
Time
"The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself."
Music
"If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off."
People
"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."
Performance
"Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business."
Business
"Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles."
Life
"But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is."
People
"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."
Film
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