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"I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself."
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"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."
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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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"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."
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"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
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"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
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"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
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"I think I can try the film world out for a while."
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"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."
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"I guess I'm growing up in the film world."
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"The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get."
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"Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know."
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"I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything."
Comedy
"And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years."
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"I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy."
Comedy
"Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore."
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"And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond."
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"I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself."
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"Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis."
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"At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow."
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"We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself."
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