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Quotes by Director
"I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt."
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"When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence."
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"Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention."
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"The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage."
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"Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about."
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"I think one of the privileges of being a filmmaker is the opportunity to remain a kind of perpetual student."
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"Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults."
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"There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave."
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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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"That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you."
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"The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed."
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"You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't."
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"Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to."
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"I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films."
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"Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church."
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"I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here."
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"I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it."
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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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"There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology."
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"If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies."
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"But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent."
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"And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves."
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"I guess what's most surprised me in most of the reviews is that they don't seem to get the noir story in the dream sequence, so they analyze it like a straight noir movie."
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"I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public."
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"I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny."
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"Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer."
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"I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts."
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"When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead."
Film,
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"If I had a choice about going to a meeting at a studio or changing a nappy, I'd choose the nappy."
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