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"There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?"
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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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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"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
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"And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town."
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"I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again."
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"To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film."
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"What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I wrote two more sections for a potential feature film which I didn't think would really happen, but at least I had it in case."
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"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
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"It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves."
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"John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film."
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"It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do."
Work
"The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need."
People
"I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like."
Film
"Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy."
People
"I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well."
Movies
"I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20."
Experience
"I took two years away from making films to write a novel."
Writing
"In Dreams... well, I was slightly overcompensating with that. I was a bit like a director for hire, so maybe I was putting too much imagery that was familiar to me into it."
Dream
"Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales."
Movies
"It's the same thing in a way, although writing a book is a very solitary thing."
Writing
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