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Quotes by Director
"All of us have our individual curses, something that we are uncomfortable with and something that we have to deal with, like me making horror films, perhaps."
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"It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake."
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"But I really am very active in the choice of the line producer with the producer of record and the distributing company, because I've had some terrible, terrible experiences with some line producers, particularly in cable."
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"You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there."
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"Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health."
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"Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong."
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"All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain."
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"At that point, the movie was called Wild Force. Everything fell apart, eventually - our financing completely fell apart - and we were never able to make that film."
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"Subject matter that is not bound to reality offers more opportunity to write a unique story and cinematically present it in very unique ways."
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"I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots."
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"All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it."
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"Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered."
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"Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned."
Film,
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"Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig."
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"I am not stopped by low funds, physical exhaustion, mental exhaustion, or temptations to stop and work on some other production that would be more financially rewarding."
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"Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music."
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"I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise."
Film,
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"Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful."
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"Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control."
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"The worst that you can say about him (God) is that basically he's an underachiever."
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"It creeps up on you and becomes an obsession. It comes out of watching a million movies."
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"Because there is so little room for expression otherwise, a lot of people love cinema because they find it a way of expressing themselves."
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"But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened."
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"In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!"
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"To you, I'm an atheist.To God, I'm the loyal opposition."
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"The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting."
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"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred."
Want,
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"We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence."
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"Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales."
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"Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy."
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"I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world."
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"I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior."
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