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Quotes by Director
"What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you can do and what you can't do. And the very real danger is that if your book of rules becomes a book of cliches."
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"After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that's what he did to get rid of people."
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"I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that."
4
"I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really."
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"Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way."
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"As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present."
4
"The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction."
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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."
Want,
4
"The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being."
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"I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on."
Work,
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"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."
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"In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically."
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"I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood."
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"I'd like to do a lot of different stuff. I think it's important as a creative person to keep challenging yourself and keep doing new stuff. If you end up trying to repeat yourself it's death. It just becomes boring and takes the passion out of it. You gotta find stories and characters that you really want to hang out with."
4
"I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose."
4
"I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives."
4
"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person."
4
"People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities."
4
"Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face."
4
"It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well."
4
"It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television."
4
"It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form."
4
"I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth."
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"The only limits are, as always, those of vision."
4
"On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through."
Work,
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"I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years."
4
"Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy."
4
"Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that."
4
"There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest."
4
"I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible."
4
"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."
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