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Film Quotes
"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."
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"A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'"
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"When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with."
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"Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar."
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"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."
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"I don't make films to win prizes. I make films to make films."
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"I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years."
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"It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock."
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"When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind."
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"But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make."
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"I'd like to produce, direct, write, score, and star in a film in exactly the way Chaplin did. I'll do that before I'm thirty."
Film,
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"No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen."
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"This role is more visible, and I grew up without a lot of that sort of modeling so I'm relieved and proud to have done this film."
Film,
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"If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters."
Film,
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"I feel that film, as opposed to theatre, is about capturing that one, real moment."
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"You seldom get that in film where you're lucky if you get any say at all in the final cut."
Film,
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"You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level."
Film,
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"I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again."
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"Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat."
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"You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown."
Film,
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"Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that."
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"It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well."
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"I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it."
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"We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed."
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"To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do."
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"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
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"That is the thing I'm most grateful for in this industry to be able to spin in those different mediums, with television, film and the stage - at this stage of the game."
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