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Quotes by Director
"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."
87
"My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam."
86
"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."
86
"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."
85
"I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice."
84
"Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far."
83
"I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me."
83
"We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever."
83
"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."
82
"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."
81
"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."
81
"I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better."
80
"People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life."
79
"I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor."
79
"I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really."
78
"The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves."
77
"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."
77
"People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man."
76
"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."
76
"Hellboy is the first movie where both ends of the spectrum are combined."
75
"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."
75
"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."
75
"For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident."
75
"Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way."
74
"The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture."
74
"What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties."
74
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