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"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."
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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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"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."
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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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"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."
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"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."
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"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."
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"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
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"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
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"I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film."
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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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"Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society."
Business
"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."
Performance
"Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles."
Life
"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."
Film
"The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them."
People
"It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego."
Choice
"I make films about working class people."
People
"The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level."
Devil
"You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work."
Work
"And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world."
Ego
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