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"My plan was to stay in Canada to make films."
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"A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date."
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"Tactical use of the media can be equated to power behind your skill or special ability. It is in the power of the media to help market your brand. You just need to look at Hollywood, European football, Bollywood, Nollywood, Global fashion & modeling, showbiz and even humanitarian efforts, to appreciate that the making and destroying of stars, initiatives and legends is to a greater extent influenced by the role played by the media."
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"Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper."
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"If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard."
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"Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema."
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"We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces."
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"With me, everything's right on the table."
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"Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then."
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"You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex."
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"But, we didn't have all the media that we do today."
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"I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films."
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"My plan was to stay in Canada to make films."
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"Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see."
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"I have a bad reputation for being temperamental."
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"I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films."
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"Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film."
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"But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood."
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"When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity."
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