"I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue."

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"I got a phone call from Douglas Campbell and from Jerome Guthrie, who offered me a job out of the blue."

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"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

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"The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up."

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"Certainly in the next 50 years we shall see a woman president, perhaps sooner than you think. A woman can and should be able to do any political job that a man can do."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"That's where my job comes in. Getting the E.U. and U.S. to agree."

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"The longer the title, the less important the job."

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Theatre

"My job is to help the functioning of the story, not to draw attention to myself, but to make my characters function within the story, to work for the benefit of the story, to make the whole thing work."

Work

"My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment."

Money

"And from my character's point-of-view in Ravenous, he had been collected by Robert Carlyle's character, he had become infected by this ravenous, cannibalistic power, and he was making the best of it."

Power

"I know a lot of people who are very good at their craft who have learned - people behind the camera - who really have a lot to offer because they know what they're doing, they know what to do, they've made their mistakes."

People

"Certainly Amadeus because it was a very powerful time for me, we filmed it in the Czech Republic at a time of lots of social and political change going on in that part of the world."

Change

"But it's true, it's nothing new that decisions about what movies are to be made, and how they're to be made, and who's to be hired to do what, and whether you hire somebody to do their job, or whether you hire somebody to fill a position and you tell them what to do."

Movies

"Every actor wants to have a character that changes, that has some kind of movement, that gets from point A to point B, that doesn't just supply one note."

Character

"Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother."

Brother

"Part of the film business is, if you want an apple, you buy an apple."

Business