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"It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?"
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"Actually I did, because I saw the film like everyone else, ten years ago and I remembered some of it. I just wanted to see it, to kind of remember the tone a little bit."
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"'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning."
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"My husband. He keeps me grounded. If I were in the world on my own, it would all be much more seductive. But I'm in a relationship that has nothing to do with the film world."
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"In Tim's films, more than most, if you miss the tone, you don't get the film."
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"You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no."
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"If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart."
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"Everyone plays their own crucial part towards the film."
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were."
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"Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar."
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"It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?"
Film
"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."
Talent
"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."
Driving
"That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you."
Trust
"Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film."
Trust
"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."
Actor
"It's developing a relationship with actors that makes it work."
Work
"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."
Time
"How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?"
Actor
"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."
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