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Quotes by Director
"I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence."
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"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."
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"I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired."
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"It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses."
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"We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements."
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"When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men."
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"Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size."
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"These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer."
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"Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me."
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"I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it."
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"I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up."
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"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."
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"As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree,' probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on."
God,
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"I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out."
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"Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here."
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"Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit."
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"To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition."
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"I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'"
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"It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."
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"Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty."
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"You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization."
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"Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance."
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"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."
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"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach."
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