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Quotes by Director
"And, consequently, the art of propaganda or public information becomes one of the most powerful forms of directive statesmanship."
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"I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema."
50
"A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together."
50
"I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'No.'"
50
"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."
50
"In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered."
Film,
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"It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't."
50
"The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit."
50
"The accolades usually come when you're dead or too old to get a job."
50
"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."
50
"I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20."
50
"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."
50
"Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film."
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"Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors."
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"Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies."
50
"When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen."
50
"So when I read this story, it unlocked a volcano of unanswered questions, because the questions had never been asked. It was an opportunity to come to terms with the lot of repressed history - and history of repression."
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"Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters."
50
"I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things apply or lead you to focus on the character and the things that don't apply are equally valuable because they lead you to towards what does."
50
"As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts."
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"Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing."
50
"All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography."
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"Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that."
50
"You don't get a chance to take a breath but when you do, you have some really good comedy moments that ease up on the tension that the movie is centered around which is Kim being kidnapped and her son and husband being kidnapped and the jeopardy that they're in."
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"The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies."
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"When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical."
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"Showing up is eighty percent of life."
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"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."
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"I have a bad reputation for being temperamental."
50
"My films are always concerned with family, friendship, honor, and patriotism."
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"Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places."
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"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."
50
"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
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