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"I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do."
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"We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20."
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"My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished."

"I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images."

"In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem."
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"I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines."

"The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself."

"Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach."

"I loved working with Jamie Lee Curtis, and I felt she was a wonderful actress even that early in her career."

"I don't really know how many films I've done, and I don't look at this as a race that I necessarily want to win. Nor is it a race that I want to stop running."

"I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become."

"The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text."

"The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all."
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