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"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally."
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"My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished."

"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."

"I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic."

"If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings."
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"It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film."

"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."
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"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that."

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"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."

"I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea."

"Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer."

"There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better."

"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."
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