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Quotes by Director
"We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean."
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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 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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"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."
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"Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being."
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"I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories."
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"The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it."
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"The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter."
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"I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators."
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"More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down."
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"It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites."
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"With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life."
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"I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently."
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"When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do."
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"There are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them."
Film,
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"There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work."
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"I use colors to bring fine points of story and character."
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"When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies."
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"What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself."
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"I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly."
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"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture."
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"The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself."
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"I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films."
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"I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!"
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"I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words."
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"Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed."
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"I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better."
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"I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story."
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