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Quotes by Director
"Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better."
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"We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff."
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"These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there."
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"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
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"Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom."
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"There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route."
Want,
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"I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work."
Work,
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"We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets."
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"I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue."
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"I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood."
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"Yes, women are stronger than us. They face more directly the problems that confront them, and for that reason they are much more spectacular to talk about. I don't know why I am more interested in women, because I don't go to any psychiatrists, and I don't want to know why."
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"I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with."
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"It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television."
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"I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to."
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"We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do."
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"It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen."
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"We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait."
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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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"Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature."
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"Clinton used to like to get out of the White House a lot. He would take night trips to McDonald's, and stuff like that. I think he wanted to get out of the house."
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"It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground."
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"It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s."
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"You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing."
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"Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age."
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"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."
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"I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image."
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"Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused."
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"Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there."
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"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
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"If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds."
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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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"Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!"
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"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."
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"Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film."
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