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Quotes by Director
"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling."
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"Sometimes, if you really want to try something original, you step a little too far out of bounds. I mean, there's a market force that kind of unconsciously keeps you in line a little bit."
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"An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it."
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"There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch."
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"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
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"We did Holy Grail, and I got my name up there as one of the directors. After that, I started moving more and more down the line I wanted to, which was making movies."
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"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
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"The press don't like to say nice things because nice is boring. It's much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we're responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit."
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"One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together."
Art,
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"I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity."
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"Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire."
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"By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do."
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"I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older."
Hope,
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"Three years after starting, by physically doing everything from raising the finance to special effects, we'd finally cobbled together our low budget film."
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"Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it."
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"I see my face in the mirror, and I said, No, my ambition is not to be an actor."
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"Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat."
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"But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them."
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"I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was."
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"A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything."
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"I've met people who will go to a movie that I can't stand and they say that they saw that movie ten times. There's something they like and identified in that movie, and I don't see it."
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"I try to get the best performance an actor can give."
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"Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage."
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"Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly."
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"A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake."
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"It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well."
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"I read, therefore I'm interested in writers."
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"I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal."
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"You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling."
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"The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking."
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"These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time."
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"Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult."
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"We can't worry about competition. Besides, you aren't competing with anyone but yourself. They have nothing to do with whether you make a good movie or not."
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"Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing."
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"In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family."
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"All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it."
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"There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'."
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"Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered."
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