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Quotes by Director
"So I had the worst experience at the very beginning, and things have been getting better since."
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"I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form."
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"Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along."
Pain,
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"Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony."
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"On the other hand, I believe there's hope, because the breakdown and the repair are happening simultaneously."
Hope,
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"In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities."
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"Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking."
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"You know, I find it very strange when movies that I made that were just excoriated - I mean that I was just vilified for - are now looked at as classics."
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"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion."
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"I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong."
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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."
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"Whenever a situation develops to its extreme, it is bound to turn around and become its opposite."
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"Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different."
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"I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way."
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"I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue."
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"To me this movie is about what is valuable. To one person it might be a stone; to someone else, a story in a magazine; to another, it is a child. The juxtaposition of one man obsessed with finding a valuable diamond with another man risking his life to find his son is the beating heart of this film."
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"I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible."
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"When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men."
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"The war was the end of an era, in art as well. And we were trying to create a new philosophy."
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"I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods."
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"Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes."
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"When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on."
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"I chose to treat the homosexuality like I would treat any other form of sexuality."
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"Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age."
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"I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project."
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"When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't."
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