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Quotes by Director
"A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit."
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"I thought that subtitles are boring because they're there generally to serve us with information to make you understand what people are saying in a different language."
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"But Gladiator is one of my favourite adventures because I really loved going into the world. I loved creating the world to the degree where you could almost smell it."
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"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."
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"The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized."
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"Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good."
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"We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change."
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"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."
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"I don't try to guess what a million people will like. It's hard enough to know what I like."
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"Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is."
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"I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh."
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"The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable."
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"That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films."
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"Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled that, because it was getting pretty crazy. I mean, a celebrity which he really did not welcome. And I can't blame him."
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"I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet."
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"I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'"
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"Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the movies because we want to resist the emotion that's there in front of us. I think there is always a catharsis that I look for and that makes the movie experience worthwhile."
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"I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights."
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"If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it."
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"Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if it's hard for me then God help everyone else."
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"Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried."
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"Historically the director has been the key creative element in a film and we must maintain that. We must protect that, in spite of the fact that there is new technology that's continually trying to erode that."
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"I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too."
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"If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead."
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"I thought I might say something to newsmen that could be turned into a scandal."
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"My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self."
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"You have to understand the tone of the movie, because if it's supposed to be funny, it can be funny violent like the Home Alone stuff, but you have to really understand the tone of what you're doing and make the action work for that and for the character."
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