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"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."
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"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."
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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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"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."
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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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"I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film."
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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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"So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really."
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"It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning."
History
"The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors."
Actor
"You gotta make the movie you want to make."
Want
"I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day."
Change
"I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting."
Genius
"I write in the mornings. During my down time."
Time
"I love directing - it's always so involving, so challenging."
Love
"I'm actually one who will encourage directors to cut my lines."
Will
"I never go overbudget on my movies."
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