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"I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized."
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"Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show."
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"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."
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"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."
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"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it."
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"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies."
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"There's not a lot of good movies being made."
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"In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance."
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"I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient."
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"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."
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"In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance."
Movies

"An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it."
Oscar

"I think the concept of the sea is very important."
Sea

"I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to."
Change

"My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books."
Family

"Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much."
Music

"What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing."
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