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"I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!"
"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."
"In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!"
"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."
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"I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something."
"I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed."
"Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations."
"Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent."
"I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face."
"There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative world of the writer."
"As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away."
"In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system."
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