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"With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western."
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"With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western."
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"I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line."
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"What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?"
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"It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare."
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"I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me."
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"Was there ever such stuff as great as part of Shakespeare? Only one must not say so! But what think you? - What? - Is there not sad stuff? What? - What?"
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"I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it."
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"Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts."
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"Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it."
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"In speaking, for convenience, of devices and expedients, I did not intend to imply that Shakespeare always deliberately aimed at the effects which he produced."
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"I want everything I do to have humor in it, because it seems to me that all of life has that."
Humor
"With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any kind story that Shakespeare told, you can tell in a Western."
Shakespeare
"The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical of what's currently going on in the movies, you know."
Movies
"I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads."
Movies
"The movies that made me want to make movies were action movies, and thrillers, and Kurosawa films, you know, where you have an opportunity every day to shoot it in an unusual way. I was looking for something like that."
Movies
"And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it."
Adventure
"I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes."
Horror
"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man."
Man
"Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life."
Life
"I really liked Carrie a lot. That was one of Brian De Palma's best movies."
Movies
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