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"I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy."
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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."
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"Looper is another great film."
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it."
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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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"And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise."
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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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"The 1980s really ended for me in 1992 with the film Kika."
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"I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge."
Family
"You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches."
Work
"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions."
History
"I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement."
Life
"Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America."
Society
"I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content."
Music
"You need, as a historian, essential triangulation from your subject and the only way you get that triangulation is through time."
Time
"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."
Focus
"The way I work, the interview never becomes larger than the person being interviewed."
Work
"History's just been made for sale to an inside deal."
History
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