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Quotes by Director
"I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own."
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"I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language."
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"He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture."
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"On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre."
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"The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary."
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"A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace."
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"Yes, obviously, there's this degree of wanting people to accept other people faiths and philosophies."
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"The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable."
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"That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films."
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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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"I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies."
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"These are very subtle things, of course, and I don't expect everyone to pick them up consciously, but I think that there is something there that you must be able to feel, there is an energy at work that I must trust my audience will be able to pick up at some level."
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"He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him."
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"No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil."
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"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
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"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."
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"When I last went to Italy, over two years ago, I had a lot more trouble understanding the language than I used to when I lived there for a year. I used to speak very little but I could understand very well."
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"There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard."
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"The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level."
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"Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health."
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"The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking."
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"Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body."
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"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
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"You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything."
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"I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance."
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"Making your first feature film is actually impossible."
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"I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has."
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