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

"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."

"When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries."

"When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted."

"Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda."

"Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made."

"It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were."
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"Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say."

"I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien."

"Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!"

"Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs."

"I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat."

"Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art."

"The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them."
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