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"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally."
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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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"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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"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 did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way."
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"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."
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"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."
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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."
Work
"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."
Thought
"The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback."
Past
"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."
Creativity
"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."
Film
"I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here."
Film
"Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer."
Life
"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."
Movies
"Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing."
Money
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