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Quotes by Director
"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."
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"What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek."
58
"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."
58
"In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about."
57
"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."
57
"You should look straight at a film; that's the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates."
56
"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."
56
"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."
56
"Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way."
55
"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."
55
"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."
55
"For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad."
55
"I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice."
55
"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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"The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself."
55
"I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak."
Life,
54
"It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?"
54
"The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep."
54
"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."
54
"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out."
54
"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans."
54
"People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life."
53
"You know, I can't remember the last movie I walked out of. If I pay, I'll see it through. I can't be halfway through a movie and think that I know everything that's going to happen, because I hope that I'm wrong."
53
"It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive."
53
"People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man."
52
"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."
52
"Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far."
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"What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties."
52
"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
52
"I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really."
51
"I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor."
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