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"When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad."
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"I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend."
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"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."
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"There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?"
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"I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do."
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"I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing."
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"If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know."
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"In any film there's always a historical implication."
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"I see Igby as my first movie as an adult, and it's a big deal for me because I really, really like the film."
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"I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer."
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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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"Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America."
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"I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge."
Family
"I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content."
Music
"Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say."
Money
"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."
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"The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts."
Genius
"You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living."
History
"History's just been made for sale to an inside deal."
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"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions."
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"Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl."
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