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Quotes by Director
"It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast."
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"My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration."
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"So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris."
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"Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey."
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"There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it."
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"Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa."
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"Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!"
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"You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank."
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"You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them."
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"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
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"I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent."
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"When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit."
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"It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose."
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"I always do an all-night horror marathon on Saturdays where we start at seven and go until five in the morning."
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"When you start being enthusiastic about whatever it is you like, that is the golden age for you."
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"You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range of the actor and, if necessary, alter the part to suit the actor."
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"My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."
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"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
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"Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making."
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"I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives."
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"I don't think there has been any increase in sophistication in the audience. When people are aware of a concept that's easy to understand, and there's an actor who will attract them to the theater and it's a movie that's funny three-quarters of the time, it will be successful."
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"Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena."
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"And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly."
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"But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented."
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"I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like."
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"The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world."
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"There are a lot of things I can take, and a few that I can't. What I can't take is when my older brother, who's everything that I want to be, starts losing faith in things. I saw that look in your eyes last night. I don't ever want to see that look in your eyes again."
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"There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch."
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"Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing."
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"Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political."
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