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Norman Jewison

"Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints."

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"Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I make movies I want to see."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."

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Amaka Imani Nkosazana

"I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad."

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Norman Jewison
"But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies."

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Norman Jewison
"I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film."

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Norman Jewison
"I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters."

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Norman Jewison
"When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it."

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Norman Jewison
"I think I've done pretty well. I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards, so I don't have any complaints."

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Norman Jewison
"I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films."

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Norman Jewison
"And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."

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Norman Jewison
"I work with a lot of movie stars."

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Norman Jewison
"Well, you know the old line - to be nominated is what it's all about. I think that I've done pretty well - I've had about 46, or 47 nominations from my movies, and my films have won about 12 awards in total, so I don't really have any complaints."

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Norman Jewison
"Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has."

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