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Quotes by Director
"The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world."
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"There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again."
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"There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch."
9
"Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies."
9
"It's a good place when all you have is hope and not expectations."
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"Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year."
9
"You go overseas and people are oppressed and scared and worried but we're not like that... we're more like my films and how people come out at the end of seeing them - they feel good."
9
"Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions."
9
"The British cinema had been very dull and conformist."
9
"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
9
"Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera."
9
"Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that."
9
"Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world."
9
"When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York."
9
"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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"For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave."
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"At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!"
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"Experience is what you get while looking for something else."
9
"I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older."
Hope,
9
"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."
9
"Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement."
Film,
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"The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture."
9
"The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie."
9
"Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts."
9
"Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat."
9
"I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive."
9
"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."
9
"He's very alive in a scene. He's a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he's blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture."
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"It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old."
9
"We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change."
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"I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels."
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