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Quotes by Director
"You just never know when you're living in a golden age."
73
"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out."
73
"If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans."
73
"Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that."
72
"It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one."
72
"It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive."
72
"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."
71
"Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins."
71
"When I came for the first time to the United States, visiting, I was absolutely fascinated by New York."
71
"You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance."
Work,
71
"The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself."
71
"I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work."
71
"There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly."
71
"What happens to me is that I am first and foremost a film geek."
70
"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,
70
"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."
70
"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."
70
"Memories are doing funny things to us."
70
"Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature."
70
"Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real."
69
"It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?"
69
"The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep."
69
"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."
69
"The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie."
68
"When I'm working on a movie, I will make any sacrifice to finish it."
68
"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
68
"If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds."
68
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