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Taylor Hackford

"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."

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"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."

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"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."

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"We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry."

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"Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee."

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"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."

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"I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy."

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"I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it."

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"I prefer film to the stage. I always like the rehearsal better than I like performing."

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"I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out."
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"But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is."
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