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Quotes by Director
"The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down."
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"There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course."
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"I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room."
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"HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism."
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"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."
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"You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that."
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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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"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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"I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore."
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"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema."
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"Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard."
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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've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy."
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"I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer."
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"I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films."
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"Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.'"
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"Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across."
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"You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all."
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"I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world."
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"Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films."
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"There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized."
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"Hard Day's Night was one of those great films that will never happen again to anyone in their lifetime. UA were in profit before we'd even finished shooting - The advance sales on the album - the film was out before the album was out was more than it cost UA to make the film."
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"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."
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"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."
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"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion."
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"We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets."
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"Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy."
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"I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it."
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"I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth."
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"I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to."
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"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."
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