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Quotes by Director
"We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets."
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"I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way."
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"Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being."
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"You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent."
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"There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest."
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"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."
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"I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods."
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"When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it."
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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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"The American formula things are out there but they don't have any stories to tell - we have all the stories to tell - but they're all formula."
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"I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living."
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"Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me."
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"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
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"I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project."
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"Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed."
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"I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini."
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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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"Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena."
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"Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film."
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"I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like."
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"The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need."
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"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."
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"Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past."
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"I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20."
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"I think there is a very quiet power in things that are not on screen."
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"For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot."
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"See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?"
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"By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do."
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"My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way."
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"There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake."
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"There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that."
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