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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."
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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."
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"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."
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"If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'."
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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."
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"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President."
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"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."
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"Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A."
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"I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea."
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"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally."
Film

"There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better."
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"I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films."
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"The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback."
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"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."
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"That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film."
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"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."
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"Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing."
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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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