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"I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script."
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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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"The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better."
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"The fact is, it's hard to release movies."
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"There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch."
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"You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them."
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"They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up."
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"I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s."
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"Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me."
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"Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!"
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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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"I'm sure some people will say, 'Why do this?' And my response is, 'Why wouldn't you?' The film business in general is using a model that is outdated and, worse than that, inefficient."
Business
"I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out."
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"Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will."
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"When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead."
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"I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be."
Time
"Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it."
Film
"A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit."
Movies
"Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street."
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"The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well."
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"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction."
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