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Quotes by Director
"I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone."
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"Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films."
4
"Well, even to this day, if I smell a Big Mac, I'm like Pavlov's dog. My mouth starts watering immediately, like, 'Man, that is so good,' but I can't take a bite of it."
4
"First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct."
4
"These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there."
4
"When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum."
4
"When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match."
4
"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
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"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."
4
"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."
4
"If people take the film and screen it whenever possible for their social and professional networks, we can continue to make a difference. It is one more element we have to use in the ongoing effort to take back our country."
4
"I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that."
4
"Yeah, getting the company that would help advertise and cross promote the movie on the release was an important factor for New Line, so we went out to a lot of different companies."
4
"I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really."
4
"Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way."
4
"There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books."
4
"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."
4
"We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28 - no Q, no gadgets."
4
"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,
4
"Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance."
4
"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."
4
"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 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 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."
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"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
"I also think the relationship I have with my audience is a lot more complex than what Hitchcock seemed to want his to be - although I think he had more going on under the surface as well."
Want,
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