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Quotes by Director
"When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work."
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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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"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."
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"Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down."
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"If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day."
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"No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil."
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"I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button."
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"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
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"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."
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"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense."
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"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
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"Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open."
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"Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen."
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"If you're a director, your entire livelihood and your entire creativity is based on your self-confidence. Sometimes that's dangerously close to arrogance."
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"Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body."
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"Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium."
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"We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not."
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"I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort."
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"At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film."
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"I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man."
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"Consciousness is the glory of creation."
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"It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held me back from saying yes to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman."
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"With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting."
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"My father was an amateur filmmaker who shot 8mm color documentaries."
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"Making your first feature film is actually impossible."
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"Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig."
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"I see technology as being an extension of the human body."
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"Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene."
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"My philosophy is very simple. To feel young, you must work as long as you can."
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"All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true."
Life,
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