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"I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."
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"When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it."
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"When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world."
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"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"
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"I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies."
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"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."
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"Our film examines the heroism, courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before."
Courage
"I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive."
Movies
"When James Cameron brought me the script, which I developed with both Cameron and Jay Cocks, I wanted to make it a thriller, an action film, but with a conscience, and I found that it had elements of social realism."
Action
"When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience."
Experience
"If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies."
Change
"Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding."
Civilization
"On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously."
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"I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell."
Love
"I don't believe in censorship in any form."
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"One should make morals judgements for oneself."
Morality
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