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"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."
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"Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year."

"In 1958, I came to Chicago where I have remained."

"They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf."

"Saskatchewan is much like Texas- except it's more friendly to the United States."

"Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York. I can't think of any other place I'd rather die than here."
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"When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen."

"On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through."

"In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film."

"With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting."

"In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films."

"Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied."

"With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life."

"The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever."
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