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John Schlesinger

"I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film."

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"I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film."

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"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."

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"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."

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"I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do."

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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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"I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV."

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"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."

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"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."

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