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Quotes by Director
"When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday."
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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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"In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture."
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"I remember feeling that technology was like trying to draw with your foot. In a ski boot. It was the most indirect way to work imaginable, but the potential had us all excited. I started in stop motion."
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"It's always a pleasure to find something that matters."
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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 always like to reveal the fact that the emperor has no clothes. And children are best at that. They teach us how to see the world in that sense. They are without artifice; they see it for what it is. I am drawn to that ruthless honesty."
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"Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly."
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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 like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."
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"The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money."
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"I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies."
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"He was a psychotic. He was a borderline psychotic. He was a terrific, sensational actor, with a magical screen presence, you couldn't keep your eyes off him, but he was paranoid. He was sure everybody was out to get him."
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"A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake."
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"I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'."
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"Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest."
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"I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young."
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"Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening."
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"You rely too much on brain. The brain is the most overrated organ."
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"The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever."
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"In love, women are professionals, men are amateurs."
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"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."
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"It's everything and I always make decisions about the cast."
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"The more unique your film is and unusual it is and difficult it is, the harder it is to get it financed. That's why a lot of good filmmakers are doing television. They do HBO movies."
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"No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys."
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"I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien."
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"I don't consider myself qualified to do a movie about international intrigue - I seldom leave the country."
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"I was watching Monster's Ball, which is a fabulous movie. It's just a little gem: beautifully shot, and shot in a way I never would have done. It made me feel very old, really, because it wasn't eccentric for its own sake, it was just very original."
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