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Quotes by Director
"My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam."
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"It's not that we use technology, we live technology."
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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 allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work."
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"I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself."
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"Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee."
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"The only solutions that are ever worth anything are the solutions that people find themselves."
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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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"I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream."
14
"The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally."
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"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."
13
"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."
13
"Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made."
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"For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it."
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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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"The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly."
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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 went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything."
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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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"The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep."
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"My parents said, Oh, he's going to be a director someday. I wanted to be an actor."
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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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"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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"Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good."
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"I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden."
Time,
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