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Quotes by Director
"Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit."
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"I don't really say much about reviewers. It's a very tough job to get all of the depth of a movie all at once."
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"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
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"Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money."
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"I've never presented. The logistics of that is a challenge."
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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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"I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera."
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"Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family."
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"With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic."
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"I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue."
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"After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception."
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"Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer."
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"So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference."
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"I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it opened up even wider because there I saw a variety of films from all over the world."
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"There's so few people in this town with a conscience."
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"I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it."
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"These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there."
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"Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students."
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"The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction."
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"The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through."
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"Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy."
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"Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me."
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"The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it."
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"It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast."
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"I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words."
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"For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery."
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"Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused."
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"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once."
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