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Quotes by Director
"I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images."
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"I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater."
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"I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you."
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"Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on."
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"My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way."
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"There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake."
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"We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd."
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"I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away."
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"I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period."
Will,
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"The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary."
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"So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever."
Car,
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"So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression."
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"ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that."
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"I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there are things about their work or their presence or their own personality that make a character, that exaggerates some qualities and suppresses other qualities. It's always a real collaboration for me."
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"These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level."
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"Some men are all right in their place if they only knew the right places."
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"If you're sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that's entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it's the storytelling. That's why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story."
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"There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard."
Man,
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"There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course."
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"One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed."
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"You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that."
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"I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all."
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"What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority."
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"You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show."
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"Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man."
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"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."
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"Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the screen even though they are extinct 65 million years. All of a sudden, we have a fantastic tool that is as good as dreams are."
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"The first thing is that we're being attacked by both the Writers Guild and the Producers Guild. Both of these groups are trying to diminish the importance and strength of the director. They're trying to do it through both frontal and side attacks."
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"The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible."
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"If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble."
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"'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want."
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"I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own."
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