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Quotes by Director
"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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"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."
50
"Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins."
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"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
50
"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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"So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever."
Car,
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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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"The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to."
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"The more she rejected us the more convinced I was that she was another version of the real Molly, her disdain for authority, her scepticism that she had to do what the white man told her because it was good for her... She is Molly."
50
"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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"Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me."
49
"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."
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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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"A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads."
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"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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"Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real."
48
"It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television."
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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."
48
"The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy."
48
"The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture."
48
"I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach."
Life,
48
"The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary."
48
"I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing."
48
"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."
47
"If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds."
47
"If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script."
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"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."
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"While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour."
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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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