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Joel Siegel

"What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Absitenence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing."

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"What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Absitenence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing."

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"In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!"

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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 had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."

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"I had to go and sing with the musical director of the film, Simon Lee, who is just incredible, and it went great. I sang with him about five things, things we'd worked on. And then I went to sing for Andrew Lloyd Weber."

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"If you do two versions of a film, they should be identical. With the same frames and settings."

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"Follow your passion."
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