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Quotes by Director
"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
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"Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard."
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"I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it."
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"There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present."
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"I've been lucky enough to have had the luxury of being able to make the picture I've wanted to make each time on my own terms and without compromise."
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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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"And I think you understand a little bit more why she falls for him. In a way, watching the French do anything is a little more fun because their gestures are different. And in that way, they make everything interesting."
Fun,
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"I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists."
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"I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior."
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"I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job."
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"In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings."
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"We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties."
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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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"Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years."
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"But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them."
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"I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me."
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"All the other guys I think had a scream on Lock, Stock. They just had a laugh and a crack, and thought it would never come out; they were just having a good time. On this one, I felt that."
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"The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you."
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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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"The written word is the basic of everything. Most important, the idea, and after that, the dialogue. You can rehash the dialogue as you go along, it 's disgraceful to have to do this, but now and again you have no choice."
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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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"My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?"
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"I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to."
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"The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork."
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"I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired."
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"With this silent film, I wanted to hide what was going on in the clinic. I wanted to cover it up in the best cinematic way and in an entertaining manner."
Film,
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"It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s."
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"I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living."
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"And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know."
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"But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process."
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"Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me."
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