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Quotes by Director
"The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile."
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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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"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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"If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead."
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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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"What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it."
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"I've experienced a private doubt, something that I've kept deeply inside, and then eventually delivered a piece of work that people responded to with huge enthusiasm."
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"Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer."
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"I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned."
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"I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion."
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"That's a very odd notion because it involves seeing money up there on the screen - if something cost $5 million to make, they want to see that $5 million up there."
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"Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser!"
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"I see technology as being an extension of the human body."
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"When I was planning Family Viewing, the Ontario Film Development Corporation came into existence."
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"People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice."
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"My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life."
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"You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites."
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"I was tweaked by the idea of Superman immediately."
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"One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey."
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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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"I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting."
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"It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made."
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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."
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"When a film is created, it is created in a language, which is not only about words, but also the way that very language encodes our perception of the world, our understanding of it."
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"That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you."
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"Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films."
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