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"In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that."
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"My focus never wavered; I never accepted the film was not going to be finished."

"We're still working out the details, but I'd be delighted to do the film. The problem at the moment is my busy schedule. Shooting on this film has been extended by a month, but I need to be in the U.S. by Dec. 20."
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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."

"I'd like to do a piece of Shakespeare. Any upcoming Shakespeare film. Just a bit to say I did a classic."

"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."

"I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise."
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"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."

"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."

"Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature."

"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."

"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."

"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."

"I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful."
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