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Quotes by Director
"A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published."
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"The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal."
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"I think it would be impossible if you had a name like mine not to get a little flack for it."
Name,
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"Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to."
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"I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy."
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"The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans."
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"No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did."
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"So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions."
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"That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people."
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"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."
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"The more light hearted I write about that, the better the message gets through."
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"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness."
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"It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated."
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"A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together."
Work,
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"We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience."
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"It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen."
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"However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school."
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"When I see a film I've finished, it's like another person made it. Like another mind."
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility."
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"Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre."
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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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"One should make morals judgements for oneself."
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"I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film."
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"Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?"
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"I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book."
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"There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control."
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"Films take up so much time, and with theatre, you do have to plan a period of time that you can be free."
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"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
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