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"My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer."
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"I make movies I want to see."
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"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."
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"I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions."
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"There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific."
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"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."
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"All I do is go to the movies."
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"Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre."
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"One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that."
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"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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"There's an electrical thing about movies."
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"Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards."
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"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."
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"If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off."
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"Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles."
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"But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is."
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"I make films about working class people."
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"You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work."
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"And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world."
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"I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out."
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"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."
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