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Quotes by Director
"Whatever has happened in my quest for innovation has been part of my quest for immaculate reality."
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"I took two years away from making films to write a novel."
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"I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others."
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"My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good."
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"Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors."
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"If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results."
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"The most realistic blood I've seen is when Marlon Brando gets beat up in On The Waterfront."
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"In The Name of the King is the right title. To be honest, I don't know who had the final idea for the title but I liked it and it has a strong connection to the movie's story."
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"At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active."
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"I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films."
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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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"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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"I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily."
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"There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route."
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"It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days."
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"Painting does what we cannot do - it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane."
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"You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29."
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"That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them."
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"The problem with doing a schlocky or big budget studio film is that it wouldn't actually be fun for me. It wouldn't be exciting."
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"Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size."
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"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction."
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"I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful."
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"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."
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"Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies."
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"I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'"
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"After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield."
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"So I haven't thought about the critics for a long time."
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"In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries."
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"I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience."
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