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Quotes by Director
"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."
Film,
12
"I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European."
12
"I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending."
12
"Painting pictures didn't make me a lot of money. I have to eat."
12
"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."
12
"I learned with 'The Beach' that I'm a bit better lower down the radar."
12
"The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends."
12
"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."
12
"A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper."
12
"A disk unbeknownst to the director can go to the producer in another city or in another office and that producer can edit behind the director's back much easier than in the old days. Since these dailies are now put on videotape, more kinds of people have access to dailies."
12
"Parents decide to accept the responsibility of raising children. Any thanks they get for doing that is gravy. Grateful children are a blessing, but they aren't a necessity."
12
"I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game."
12
"If we cannot see the possibility of greatness, how can we dream it?"
12
"I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm."
12
"I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity."
12
"Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know."
12
"In the forty years of the people's republic, some of the worst historical traits were preserved in our people. These included even the common characteristics developed in the economic reality of the time of partitions in the 17th and 18th centuries."
12
"I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills."
12
"The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably."
12
"I just love real characters, they're not pretentious, and every emotion is on the surface, they're regular working people. Their likes, their dislikes, their loves, their hates, their passions; they're all right there on the surface."
12
"In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul."
Soul,
12
"The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes."
12
"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,
12
"Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt."
12
"You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown."
Film,
12
"I have no problem being with people of different nationalities."
12
"Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts."
12
"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach."
12
"Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen."
12
"It's very difficult to break into motion pictures, but it's oddly easier for directors today because of independent films and cable, who have inherited for the most part those films of substance that the studios are reluctant to finance."
12
"I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'"
12
"A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit."
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