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Quotes by Director
"The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself."
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"It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive."
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"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."
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"People must not think that all bad in man which is unleashed, the moment you impose censorship disappears from man."
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"It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one."
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"In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about."
62
"When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came."
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"So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever."
Car,
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"For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad."
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"I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times."
61
"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter."
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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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"It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?"
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"The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture."
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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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"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."
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"Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos."
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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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"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
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"It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy."
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"I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her."
60
"Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me."
59
"Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins."
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"Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make."
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"It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television."
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"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."
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"The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to."
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"A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia."
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