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"The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope."
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"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"Looper is another great film."
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"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."
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"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
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"As a matter of principle, I always come to a film like a blank slate, I don't learn my lines in advance. With this approach, I feel clean."
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"It's gotten to the point where it's big news when I don't do a horror film."
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"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."
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"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally."
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"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in."
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"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."
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"British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained."
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"When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris."
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"When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies."
Movies
"The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope."
Film
"My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality."
French
"When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation."
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"The world distribution of French movies is a laughing matter. That is a fact."
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"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."
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"To do the writing, I have to have time to do research."
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