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"My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished."
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"I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon."
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"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."
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"I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic."
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"If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings."
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"It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film."
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"I didn't so much choose the film as director Claire Denis chose me."
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"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."
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"Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film."
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"The presentation of hard core pornography, brutality and shocking language, from what I hear, is leaving the public jaded and tired of this kind of film."
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"In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer."
Control
"It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda."
Experience
"I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers."
Time
"Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best."
Writing
"It's frustrating not to have more control over your material."
Control
"For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of."
Writing
"When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor."
Thought
"Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party."
Party
"I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal."
Experience
"The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish."
Writing
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