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Norman Jewison

"I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films."

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"I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films."

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"As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can."
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"In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio."
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"And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."
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"Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film."
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