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Quotes by Director
"When you're at the end of your rope, all you have to do is make one foot move out in front of the other. Just take the next step. That's all there is to it."
68
"As a producer, I think one of the most important decisions you make is not necessarily the material you are working on but the production apparatus that you choose to develop the project with, and that determines what funding you go to, it determines many factors."
68
"For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad."
68
"I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times."
67
"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter."
67
"You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead."
67
"Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos."
67
"I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood."
67
"It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television."
67
"The British cinema had been very dull and conformist."
67
"The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to."
67
"I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style."
67
"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."
67
"I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her."
67
"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."
67
"If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart."
67
"A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia."
66
"I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France."
66
"My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!"
66
"It's a terrible thing to say I know. I've only done what I wanted to do. It's a real luxury. I only made the pictures I wanted to make and lived in the places I've wanted to live. I'm very, very happy."
66
"In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about."
66
"I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach."
Life,
66
"The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary."
66
"My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on."
66
"So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever."
Car,
66
"I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them."
66
"I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years."
66
"I always have coffee without sugar, you know. Just cream."
66
"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."
66
"I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds."
65
"In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids."
65
"A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads."
65
"Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out."
65
"Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that."
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