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Quotes by Director
"You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility."
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"John Cleese was with a group called Cambridge Circus, who had come to New York, and we became friends. Years later that produced a certain team effort."
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"Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America."
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"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."
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"I started reading when I was about three, a little over three."
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"Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open."
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"I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it."
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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 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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"I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt."
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"It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it."
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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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"I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.'"
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"And in movies you must be a gambler. To produce films is to gamble."
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"The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire."
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"A scientist is an unlikely character to put at the center of a movie."
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"Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies."
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"I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show."
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"I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart."
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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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"Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero."
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"The media in America has become so cowed and compromised."
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"And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before."
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"Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations."
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"Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful."
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"That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction."
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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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