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Ang Lee

"I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans."

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"I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished."

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Amber Hurdle

"Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays."

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Amber Hurdle

"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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Amber Hurdle

"In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done."

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Amber Hurdle

"It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock."

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Amber Hurdle

"Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back."

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Amber Hurdle

"I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me."

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"Sexuality is a big issue, but there are others - how much you commit to a relationship, to social obligation, to honesty and being honest with yourself."
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"I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama."
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"The way I go about a lovemaking scene is that we will talk about it during the rehearsing time."
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"In the past I've made movies that were pretty universally liked. You can't really hate them. You can discard them, but you can't really hate them."
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"Not taboo - it's just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd - they're movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting."
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"When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore."
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"To me, Ennis stands for the conservative side of America. He's the biggest homophobe in the whole movie - culturally and psychologically - but by the time he admits his feelings, it's too late."
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"Usually with this genre the first thing that happens is a good fight sequence to show that you're in good hands. So we broke that rule. I think a lot of that comes from the western audience."
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"Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing."
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