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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."

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

"Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums."

"Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire."

"I am hoping to film another ad in the summer for Carte Noire."
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"I was trying to talk about where we are right now as a society, and talk about the fear we all live in, and certainly since 9-11, how it's affected us and the world."

"I don't think it's the job of filmmakers to give anybody answers. I do think, though, that a good film makes you ask questions of yourself as you leave the theatre."

"As a general rule, I don't plan to travel with my Oscars, but we may have to make an exception."

"I just asked myself, what piece of that man's soul did he just chew off and swallow to get next week's assignment? You know, just to live, just to work as an artist, or to feed the family?"

"I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me."

"We all have these tendencies in us that could go this way or that. I think that's the real key in writing. To look at a character without judgment."
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