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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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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"Looper is another great film."
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"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."
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"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
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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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"It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film."
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"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."
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"I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here."
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"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally."
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Explore more quotes by John Schlesinger

"Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film."
Media

"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."
Actor

"I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing."
Media

"Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay."
Life

"I have a feeling he felt Jon Voight had run away with the film, which he didn't, though he was brilliant in it, in a much less easy part. I just don't know what had got into him, but something had."
Emotional

"Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes."
Actor

"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."
Hollywood

"No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen."
Media

"I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise."
Film

"That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now."
Attitude
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