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Quotes by Director
"I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal."
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"I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me."
74
"My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam."
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"The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves."
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"The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion."
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"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
71
"I've become wary of interviews in which you're forced to go back over the reasons why you made certain decisions. You tend to rationalize what you've done, to intellectually review a process that is often intuitive."
71
"I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor."
71
"I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better."
70
"Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined."
69
"I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really."
69
"For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation."
69
"More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all."
Evil,
69
"For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident."
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"It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites."
68
"Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc."
67
"Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true."
67
"The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same."
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"The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep."
66
"What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties."
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"I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice."
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"What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek."
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"People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life."
65
"Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that."
65
"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out."
65
"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans."
65
"Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way."
64
"When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it."
64
"Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature."
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