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Quotes by Director
"I failed to make the chess team because of my height."
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"Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different."
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"The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person."
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"I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive."
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"People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities."
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"In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one."
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"Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face."
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"I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years."
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"As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place."
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"When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white."
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"You just never know when you're living in a golden age."
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"I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money."
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"I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired."
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"That's a little homage in a way to that and also to create that sort of creepy atmosphere that Hitchcock did. Vertigo was one of his great movies that was shot right here in The City and it's about a woman and the psychological twists and so forth."
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"In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form."
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"However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school."
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"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else."
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"The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it."
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"I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it."
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"When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men."
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"I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people."
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"Each kid has a different level of expertise and some of them are very raw and inexperienced and some are incredibly mature and experienced. So you just have to go with what they are rather than have some abstract technique that you're going to try to apply to them."
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"My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place."
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"It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast."
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"Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation."
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"I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process."
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"Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused."
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"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction."
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