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Quotes by Director
"I'm thrilled to have a completely new audience that I can get from Court TV, without it being my own trial. That was the only other way I would have gotten it."
10
"That's why I never became a director. I never had patience with people."
10
"When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible."
10
"Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion."
10
"I've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing."
10
"Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth."
10
"I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration."
10
"There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things."
10
"When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match."
10
"I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong."
10
"I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to Paris for part of one year and ended up staying there."
10
"Yes, I was hired by Universal because they needed a comedy director. They had seen Scandal and liked it. I saw an opportunity even in those comedies to begin my project of American films."
10
"The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad."
10
"The language of the moment or, as it were, the language of the order in which we live, is the image. I felt that if I wanted to commune with the public, I should best do so through the language of image. It's a conscious embrace of a contradiction."
10
"There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books."
10
"Anyway, that was the germ of the idea and of course... you know this was early days of sociology and whatever, especially on television."
10
"When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity."
10
"Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment."
10
"This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival."
10
"It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated."
10
"The only limits are, as always, those of vision."
10
"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."
10
"On stage, the audience watches from a fixed viewpoint and the director cannot retake something he doesn't like. It has to work straight through."
Work,
10
"Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night."
10
"I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses."
10
"There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?"
Film,
10
"When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process."
10
"I thought Godzilla was a mess, the monster had no character and the humans didn't either. They forgot to make the movie that went along with all these wonderful effects."
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