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Quotes by Director
"I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me."
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"France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper."
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"The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable."
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"We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire."
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"The Cuban people have an amazingly strong and unbroken spirit."
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"Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table."
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"To us, basing stories on christianity is the same as basing stories on Roman mythology, Native American folklore, or unsubstantiated government conspiracies."
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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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"The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has."
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"What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me."
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"I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films."
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"The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself."
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"Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better."
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"I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much."
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"Moonstruck... was one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar."
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"First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct."
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"Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that."
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"The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good."
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"So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point."
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"When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men."
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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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"I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it."
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"I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning."
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"When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries."
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"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
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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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"I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."
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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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"The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene."
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