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Quotes by Director
"I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see."
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"If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies."
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"I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films."
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"Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other."
Work,
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"If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels."
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"If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results."
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"The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal."
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"To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them."
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"When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy."
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"Yet I never want to make a movie purely for the money."
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"It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?"
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"There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance."
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"And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things."
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"I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny."
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"I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew."
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"It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today."
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"I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life."
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"I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts."
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"We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important."
Time,
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"In the first years after 1989, films were partly financed from the state's budget as well as by public television. Still, except for a few special cases, most films are made this way."
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"If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world."
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"Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time."
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"We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world."
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"When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead."
Film,
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