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Jan de Bont

"When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted."

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"When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted."

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"When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad."

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"I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again."

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"We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed."

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"We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie."
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"This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting."
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"Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her."
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"In regards to The Haunting, people compared it to the old movie, which is unfair. We didn't have the rights to the movie. I couldn't duplicate a single thing because that would have been legal infringement."
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"I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear."
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"I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life."
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"It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive."
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"Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing."
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"I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles."
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"Summer movies are spectacles; that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop."
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