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Quotes by Director
"In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically."
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"I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry."
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"I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories."
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"With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext."
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"With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner."
Film,
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"Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts."
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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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"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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"Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism."
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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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"It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose."
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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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"There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?"
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"More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down."
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"One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that."
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"When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them."
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"Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie."
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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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"I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films."
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"I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything."
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"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."
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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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"It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing."
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"I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all."
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"I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most."
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"You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show."
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"Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!"
Now,
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"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."
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"'m a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them."
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"I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles."
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"There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan."
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