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Quotes by Director
"I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times."
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"The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics."
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"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter."
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"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."
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"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans."
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"What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek."
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"If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on."
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"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."
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"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."
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"People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life."
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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."
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"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."
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"If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script."
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"My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam."
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"For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do."
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"It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?"
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"The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep."
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"What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties."
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"I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me."
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"I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream."
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"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."
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"Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real."
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"We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds."
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"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."
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"We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage."
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"I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all."
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"I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself."
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