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"If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world."
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"You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others."
"That boy is talented. You don't develop those gifts in houses or in schools."
"We don't choose our talents, but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want."
"Talent silences your competition, genius deafens them."
"Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge."
"Talent is the seed, success is the fruit."
"If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out."
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"It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important."
"How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?"
"First cuts are a bitch for a director, because it's been so many months and you put your trust in your editor and you're going to see your film assembled for the first time. You look at it and go, This is terrible. I hate it."
"I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries."
"It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking."
"Some actors just won't bend, and then it's a bitch. You either fight or find ways of putting your words in their mouth and letting them say it back at you."
"I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective."
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