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"I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaking to ask me to make the new Superman."
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"Working on such a big film was amazing. I learned a lot. There weren't too many stunts, just some doubling."
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"When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with."

"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."

"I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way."

"You wouldn't ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman."
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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."

"When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work."

"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."

"When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days."
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