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"When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity."
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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 have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films."
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"When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity."
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"My plan was to stay in Canada to make films."
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"Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see."
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"I have a bad reputation for being temperamental."
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"I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films."
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"Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film."
Vision
"But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood."
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