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Quotes by Director
"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."
Old,
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"The horror genre is important because it promotes experimentation in filmmaking."
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"True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing."
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"I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique."
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"We tend to do period stuff because it helps make it one step removed from boring everyday reality."
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"It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert."
Life,
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"Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety."
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"It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want."
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"I don't rehearse films as much as opera or theatre. When I began directing films I thought a long rehearsal was a good idea. Experience showed me that the best performance was often left in a rehearsal room."
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"I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler."
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"I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished."
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"I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces."
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"If there is reincarnation I'd like to come back as Warren Beatty's fingertips."
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"I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways."
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"I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt."
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"I have a bad reputation for being temperamental."
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"Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints."
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"Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field."
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"On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down ."
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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'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."
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"I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it."
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"One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it."
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"The worst that you can say about him (God) is that basically he's an underachiever."
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"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'"
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