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Quotes by Director
"The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking."
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"But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies."
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"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."
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"Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF."
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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."
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"In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film."
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"I get out of the taxi and it's probably the only city which in reality looks better than on the postcards, New York."
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"With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting."
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"Making your first feature film is actually impossible."
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"What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself."
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"I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
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"I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school."
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"I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies."
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"There were a couple Aborigines in my primary school, but we never spoke to them. They kept to themselves, and we never really even locked eyes. They weren't acknowledged officially either."
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"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
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"David: And you think it can just evaporate? Even if at one time they loved one another?Marx: That's one of the sad truths of existence. Nothing in this world is permanent. Even the characters created by the great Shakespeare will, in millions of years, cease to exist-when the universe runs its course and the lights go out."
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"Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke."
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"'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want."
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"I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made."
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"Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office."
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"Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music."
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"I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free."
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"I've made seventeen or eighteen films now, only two of which have been original screenplays, all the others have been based on short stories or novels, and I find the long short story ideal for adaptation."
Now,
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"The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."
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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."
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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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"That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort."
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"I took two years away from making films to write a novel."
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"Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors."
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"I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists."
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"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
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"Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has."
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"Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody."
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"At the same time, television theatre became more visibly active."
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"Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can't believe, I can't accept that you die and that's the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there's something about the mind that's more than that."
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