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Quotes by Director
"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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"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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"I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors."
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"I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of."
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"There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry."
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"Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside."
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"In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent."
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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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"In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth."
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"A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it."
Want,
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"My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on."
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"I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope."
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"When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film."
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"Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters."
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"When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work."
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"Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face."
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"So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born."
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"I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see.something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself."
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"There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better."
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