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Quotes by Director
"I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down."
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"It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held me back from saying yes to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman."
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"If there is reincarnation I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips."
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"I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America."
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"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."
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"Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist."
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"The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage."
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"The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible."
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"If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway!"
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"There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood."
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"I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality."
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"Technique is of less interest than character and story."
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"We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence."
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"If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month."
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"Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there."
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"The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience."
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"What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do."
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"I aspire to eventually be making my living by making movies."
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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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"To me the only real star of the movie is the writer. And I work with writers very closely, from outline to first draft and on to the seventh draft, whatever it takes. Then my job is to support the director to make the best movie we can. Some producers try to go past them, but my job is to support them."
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"Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody."
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"Arnold and Jamie Lee must have worked over the years with directors that did 50 takes, because I'd get like three takes or so and say, Ok, that's it, we're done."
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"I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer."
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"I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all."
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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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