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Quotes by Director
"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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"It's sad - it's sad for us old enough to remember when directors ruled, and films were substantially better than they are today. But it's hard to argue with those kinds of grosses."
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"You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth."
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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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"The only things you regret are the things you don't do."
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"Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me."
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"From the beginning, we were prepared, we know how we would shoot and cut the two versions."
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"I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives."
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"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling."
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"I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar."
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"Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera."
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"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
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"You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it."
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"When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television."
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"My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way."
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"I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story."
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"I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development."
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"In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul."
Soul,
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"The thing that I had saved up for myself and wanted most to bring off was a fully fledged professional production of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theater in Stratford."
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"In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do."
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"Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff."
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"The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I mean, it's crazy. So you can't improvise, you cannot suddenly do something that comes to mind, whereas in a small production you have much more flexibility."
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"I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have right of final cut."
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"One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen."
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"Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone."
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"I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience."
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"The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money."
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"I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see.something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself."
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"No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil."
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"I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like."
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"All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love."
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