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Quotes by Director
"It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy."
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"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
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"From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions."
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"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling."
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"I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant."
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"I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors."
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"You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it."
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"It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman."
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"At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!"
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"Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement."
Film,
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"I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away."
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"When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them."
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"In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk."
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"One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen."
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"Unless you go out and say what you stand for, other people will do it for you."
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"Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life."
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"I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years."
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"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
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"When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies."
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"At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film."
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"Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig."
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"I've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things."
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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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"Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom."
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"You think about taking audiences on a journey."
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"As you know, in America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio, so if they want to remake it they can."
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"Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard."
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"I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing."
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