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Quotes by Director
"I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again."
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"For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start."
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"The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words."
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"It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman."
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"For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave."
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"The personality problem is so tough when you're not able to pay people. It's bad enough when you can pay people, but, when you have people working for free, often their motivation is diminished considerably."
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"At the first screening, there were a lot of areas that we went around and around about. Then we had our second screening. It played better. It's almost a reasonable length film now!"
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"I hope that Requiem is better than Pi. I hope that Pi is better than my student films, and I'm hoping that I'm getting better as I get older."
Hope,
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"And anyway, it's only movies. to stop me I think they'll ahve to shoot me in the head."
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"A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it."
Want,
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"Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good."
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"I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly."
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"Whatever the public blames you for, cultivate it; it is yourself."
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"I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm."
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"So, through all that early professional career I would occasionally do a musical, a pantomime or a play with songs. The next stop would be a Shakespeare, or an Ibsen, or a play by a brand new writer who had never done anything in the theater before."
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"I like old people falling over, that's what makes me laugh."
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"Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through."
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"That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further."
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"Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly."
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"Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky."
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"I animated 20 years at Terry Toons. It's important to know that animators like pizza and a raise once in a while, and you've got to treat them with love."
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"I sought Ben Affleck because I needed an everyman for this role. Ben appeals to men and women. He gives you a sense of intelligence, the notion of a guy who can think on his feet."
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"It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well."
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"It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast."
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"I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted."
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"So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies."
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"All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now."
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"I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to."
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"I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down."
Sex,
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"I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world."
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"I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature."
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"There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility."
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"If there is reincarnation I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips."
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