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"My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam."
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"I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!"
"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!"
"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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"I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do."
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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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"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
"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 always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me."
"I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it."
"Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do."
"You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost."
"I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant."
"I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten."
"The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college."
"I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies."
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