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"Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets."
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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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"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."
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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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"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."
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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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"I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor."
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"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."
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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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"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
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"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."
Cinema
"I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies."
Movies
"Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets."
Film
"I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film."
Money
"Heroism in a bad cause."
Cause
"A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion."
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"The British cinema had been very dull and conformist."
Cinema
"I will only speak off the record about Debra Winger."
Will
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