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Quotes by Director
"Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer."
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"I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting."
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"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
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"If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director."
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"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."
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"When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them."
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"This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting."
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"Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities."
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"I remember teachers who really singled me out for their discouragement."
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"I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange."
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"We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world."
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"I began to feel that, in a sense, we were all prisoners of our own history."
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"Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along."
Pain,
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"You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all."
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"Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings."
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"I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor."
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"I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear."
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"So on my screenplay, on the left-hand side of the page, I will put all the ideas that refer to the scene next to it so I have some sort of pictorial reference."
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"I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!"
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"And later I thought, I can't think how anyone can become a director without learning the craft of cinematography."
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"Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films."
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"The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans."
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"But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore."
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"Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time."
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"I cannot work fast enough. I cannot cope fast enough, really. And just releasing a film is hard."
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"It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time."
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"I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much."
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