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Quotes by Director
"Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most."
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"I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work."
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"I don't agree with everything he did in his life, but we're dealing with this Howard Hughes, at this point. And also ultimately the flaw in Howard Hughes, the curse so to speak."
Life,
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"I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal."
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"If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds."
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"I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice."
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"Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me."
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"We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie."
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"Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real."
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"Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc."
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"Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far."
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"It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?"
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"When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it."
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"As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors."
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"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
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"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
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"You know, I can't remember the last movie I walked out of. If I pay, I'll see it through. I can't be halfway through a movie and think that I know everything that's going to happen, because I hope that I'm wrong."
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"Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things."
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"I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all."
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"What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties."
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"I use colors to bring fine points of story and character."
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"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans."
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"I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s."
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"I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything."
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"I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself."
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"I was speaking to Ridley Scott the other day and he makes a film every 18 months. He's amazing really."
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"So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris."
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