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"Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element."
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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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"The good moral work of art should have all the qualities that a good amoral work of art should have, such as formal unity, balance, contrast, and a sensitivity to the material out of which it is made."
"The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes."
"In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film."
"By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects."
"And so my militant philosophy is this: to make with a brush on canvas is a simple direct delight-to make with the movie is the same."
"But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature."
"I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas."
"So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age."
"I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film."
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