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Quotes by Director
"In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material."
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"You cannot limit yourself to one area of specialized craft. Instead, regardless of craft, you have to charge all forms of expression that lead to the community, to other people, with meaning."
33
"Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church."
32
"I've become friends with Michael Mann and Oliver Stone; I've seen those guys work and that was great to see."
32
"And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves."
32
"I thought Star Wars was too wacky for the general public."
32
"I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light."
32
"It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?"
32
"A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs."
32
"Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say."
32
"It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today."
32
"And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them."
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"Anyone can negatively criticize - it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires."
32
"I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear."
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"I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine."
Sex,
32
"What I love about new technology is that it really pushes the art. It really pushes it in a way that you can't imagine until you come up with the idea. It's idea-based. You can do anything."
32
"My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images."
32
"With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV."
32
"Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice."
32
"When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly."
32
"The world is an infinitely fascinating, tragic and humorous place."
32
"I didn't feel like going any further in this scene with the boy. He was not a professional actor, and if I had pushed the scene any further it would have destroyed the tone of the movie."
32
"I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director."
32
"When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it."
32
"Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe."
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"I got put on jury duty, which is where I learned how to write."
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"The only limits are, as always, those of vision."
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"I loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend."
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