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"Children's finger-painting came under the arts, but movies didn't."
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"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."

"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."

"Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies."

"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."

"I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant."
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"The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing."

"Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs."

"The great difference between screen acting and theatre acting is that screen acting is about reacting - 75% of the time, great screen actors are great reactors."

"You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me."

"But in marketing, the familiar is everything, and that is controlled by the studio. That is reaching its apogee now."

"Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates."

"Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar."
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