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"Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"I think I can try the film world out for a while."
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"I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band."
Today
"Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys."
Film
"When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking."
Thinking
"There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV."
Beer
"I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97."
Movies
"And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really."
Worry
"Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped."
Movies
"The actual process of filmmaking, the many hours out of your life- it is very slow and boring. I'm not interested in that now unless an opportunity was provided for me."
Life
"And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies."
Movies
"My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing."
Taste
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