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Quotes by Director
"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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"The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage."
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"The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device."
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"I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well."
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"I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic."
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"It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen."
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"You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time."
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"I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her."
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"Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke."
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"There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present."
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"So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially."
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"When war comes, two things happen - profits go way, way up and all perishables go way, way down. There becomes a market for them."
War,
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"Technique is of less interest than character and story."
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"There is no question that there is an unseen world. The problem is, how far is it from midtown and how late is it open?"
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"The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."
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"The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting."
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"And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts."
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"Too many girls follow the line of least resistance but a good line is hard to resist."
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"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."
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"I think people remember pictures not dialogue. That's why I like pictures."
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"The audience too should be respected by being presented with a film as they remember it, and for those who have not seen it, as it was intended to be seen. Anything less is a degradation of the film and its audience."
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"And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet."
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"Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church."
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"What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do."
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"There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention."
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"I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s."
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"We agreed that we cannot let personal political attacks get in the way of doing the very best we can for California's children."
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"A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published."
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"Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!"
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"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
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