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Quotes by Director
"My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker."
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"I'm such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own."
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"There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films."
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"So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true."
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"I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor."
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"I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything."
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"Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there."
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"The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter."
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"If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds."
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"I think that the consciousness of passion makes you act very differently."
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"I think the last one would have to be The Godfather because it was such a powerful story. There was lots of violence in it but I could take it because I thought there was a reality to it. It wasn't gratuitous, it was just these guys' story."
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"I never read reviews. I'm not interested. But I value a lot the reactions of the spectators."
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"Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters."
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"What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority."
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"For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it."
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"The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion."
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"You know, I can't remember the last movie I walked out of. If I pay, I'll see it through. I can't be halfway through a movie and think that I know everything that's going to happen, because I hope that I'm wrong."
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"Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things."
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"It's always great to discover a new star of tomorrow."
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"The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally."
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"Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs."
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"I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government."
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"The British cinema had been very dull and conformist."
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"Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made."
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"When you make a film like this, you must have the highest expectations of your audience. Having worked in situations where we have the lowest expectations of our audience."
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"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."
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"Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature."
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"It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive."
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"Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me."
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"We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane."
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