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Quotes by Director
"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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"Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office."
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"Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable."
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"Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun."
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"So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long."
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"There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan."
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"First of all, whoever didn't want to be a member of this association or the other association, was branded, you know, like a dangerous individualist, you know, infected by the Western decadence, you know. So everybody joined."
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"If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month."
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"There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'"
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"I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie."
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"I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films."
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"Film is a very, very powerful medium. It can either confirm the idea that things are wonderful the way they are, or it can reinforce the conception that things can be changed."
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"I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize."
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"I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job."
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"I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script."
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"Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament."
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"If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever."
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"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
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"Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals."
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"Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos."
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"We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties."
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"Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years."
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"I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul."
Soul,
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"I don't mind writing so I didn't find that difficult, it's just a question of finding the time to do it. I kind of like the direct connection with the fans actually, it's pretty neat."
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"Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns."
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"Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer."
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"On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously."
Hope,
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"My greatest thrill was the day Mad magazine spoofed 'Ghost.'"
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"Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time."
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"When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it."
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"Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this."
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"When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it."
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