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Quotes by Director
"It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't."
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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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"I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development."
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"I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators."
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"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach."
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"I think the reason why we were able to actually get it made was that we were so extremely naive - we had no experience at all here. We didn't even know that you were supposed to have an agent. We didn't even have a lawyer. We didn't know one soul."
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"What I learned about stammering was that, when as a young child you lose the confidence of anyone who wants to listen to you, you lose confidence in your voice and the right to speech. And a lot of the therapy was saying, 'You have a right to be heard.'"
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"One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen."
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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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"But surrealism is present in most of my pictures."
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"All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love."
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"You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in."
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"Most of my technical knowledge comes from having worked in the industrial video industry."
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"There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more."
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"Showing up is eighty percent of life."
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"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."
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"Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned."
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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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"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've never been anywhere in my life like it and I only really noticed it when I returned to Los Angeles and then Berlin. Everybody is much better off in these places, there is not poverty like in Cuba, but everybody complains about things."
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"When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy."
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"Right now, there's the illusion of order and civilization, but there's a tremendous amount of economic tension in this country and the educational system is constantly eroding."
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"I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie."
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"Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman."
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"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."
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"I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore."
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"And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people."
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"'m a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them."
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"We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself."
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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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"Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't."
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"Film is shot in fragments, and the same moments can be shot again and again until the director is satisfied."
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