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"I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't."
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"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."
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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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"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."
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"I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted."
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"I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us."
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"Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume."
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"Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too."
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"What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff."
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"Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not."
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"You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy."
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"But it is funny, because I saw Unbreakable recently and it's a strange movie, I didn't mind it, and it's got some interesting things going on."
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"I get very driven by certain themes and ideas."
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"The thing about movies these days is that the commerce end of it is so inflated and financiers are just expecting this enormous return on their investment."
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"I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade."
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"I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it."
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"The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element."
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"I'm one of the few people who really like Eyes Wide Shut."
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"Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing."
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"The film, even when we were making it in that budget range, which was really a coup - we got it made because we pitched it to the studio head, Joe Roth."
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"That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings."
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