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"Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises."
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"Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one."
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"There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves."
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"We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem."
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"I believe in supporting African solutions to African problems."
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"The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication."
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"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."
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"You may have numerous answers to your problems, but none can really solve them. Answers are not solutions."
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"Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them."
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"It must be able to assist in devising the method of solution of problems and not merely solve them."
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"You will have relatively less problems to solve, if you don't confuse problems with inconveniences."
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"And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it's got a story that's compelling and there's enough money to make the picture."
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"I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer."
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"But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes."
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"As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along."
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"I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first."
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"I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways."
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"In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios."
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"But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time."
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"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
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"I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe."
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