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Quotes by Director
"Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with."
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"I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining."
52
"Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them."
52
"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music."
51
"I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here."
50
"I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent."
50
"Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make."
47
"When we began filming, these people had legs, but as we were filming, they had been injured and they were brought to the hospital to have their legs amputated, and that's where we found them and asked them to come and be part of the film."
47
"From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it."
47
"It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body."
46
"The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves."
45
"I think there are movies that are so gigantic that you need a second unit."
44
"Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets."
43
"The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope."
Film,
43
"I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens."
42
"I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself."
42
"For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do."
41
"My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor."
41
"You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do."
40
"The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics."
39
"You can pretend to be serious; but you can't pretend to be witty."
39
"Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee."
39
"We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever."
39
"You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates."
38
"I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me."
38
"A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them."
37
"It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, and I hadn't even read the book. So I read it and I liked it very much and I knew I'd certainly like to do it."
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