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Quotes by Director
"Years ago I had a house in Sussex, it was like Arcadia, with an old Victorian bridge, a pond and the Downs."
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"I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea."
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"It is very easy to make clear what you want a film to say, but I did not wish to engage in overt propaganda, even for the right cause. I wanted to create an experience through the films, something where people could have the freedom of their own response to them."
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"When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them."
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"A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people."
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"Early experiences convinced me that animals can and do have quite distinct personalities."
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"Peter Hall was just organizing the Royal Shakespeare Company. It was going to be an ensemble, it was going to be in repertory, it was going to have a home in London as well as in the Midlands, and all of those things were happening at that time."
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"I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action."
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"I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself."
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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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"I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history."
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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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"We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us."
War,
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"And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."
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"My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning."
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"We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff."
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"If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race."
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"I got a nomination for director, which means the world to me; it's just the most exciting thing for me and my family. You do the good hard work, and the rest of it is something you shouldn't get too caught up in, but when it happens - boy! I respect it."
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"We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor."
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"I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction."
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"Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being."
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"British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained."
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"You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity."
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"When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical out of the documentary material about the General Strike, which was the next big historical event in England, after the First World War."
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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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"Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself."
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"No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting."
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"We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements."
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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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"My career seems to be a career of non-specific subjects which are all over the place."
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