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"In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that."
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"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."
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"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV."
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"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
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"I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest."
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"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."
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"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
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"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."
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"A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin."
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"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all."
Beauty
"I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious."
Movies
"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."
Movies
"I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer."
Being
"All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy."
Problems
"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."
Lifestyle
"If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force."
Positive
"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."
Time
"I allow my intuition to lead my path."
Education
"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money."
Money
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