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Patrice Leconte

"My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience."

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Donna Grant

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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Donna Grant

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Donna Grant

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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Donna Grant

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."

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Donna Grant

"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."

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Donna Grant

"Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President."

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"Nowadays they either want to move the film to Canada or in some cases they go to Prague or Romania or they want to keep 'em down in L.A."

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"But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me."

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Patrice Leconte
"When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker."

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Patrice Leconte
"You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling."

Home

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Patrice Leconte
"I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own."

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Patrice Leconte
"Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things."

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Patrice Leconte
"Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin."

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Patrice Leconte
"I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films."

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Patrice Leconte
"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."

Acting

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Patrice Leconte
"I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized."

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Patrice Leconte
"If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director."

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Patrice Leconte
"But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent."

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