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"Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film."
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"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."
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"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
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"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
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"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."
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"I guess I'm growing up in the film world."
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"Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie."
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"Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously."
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"I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy."
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"When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience."
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"I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production."
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"I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films."
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"Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new set of people every few years and it gets boring."
Sex
"The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well."
Movies
"I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out."
Time
"Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will."
Movies
"The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie."
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"Another thing that really excites me: I'd like to do multiple versions of the same film."
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"But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses."
Business
"When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't."
Reading
"When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead."
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