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Quotes by Director
"I thought that the AIVD was there to protect citizens like me."
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"I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation."
10
"When I come to London, I always like to see what's playing at the NFT."
10
"The story is also about the battle between Arthur and the Saxons. The Saxons were destroying everything they came across and Arthur was left when Rome was falling because this movie takes place in 400 A.D."
10
"I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them."
10
"For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid."
10
"Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong."
10
"Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are."
Will,
10
"All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which they operate. My language to each of them has to suit their brain."
10
"I got too fed up with films that didn't make you think. I liked the idea of one that you'd have to be dancing around with. I like my mind to be engaged when I watch a film."
10
"I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way."
10
"I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge."
10
"There's nothing I've done which I'm ashamed of or I thought was actually bad."
10
"The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to shave. Also, there is the fear that there is an afterlife but no one will know where it's being held. On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily laying down."
10
"Listening to what people were saying wasn't even important. But it was important to look as if you were listening to what people were saying. Actually, listening to what people are saying, to me, interferes with looking as if you were listening to what people are saying."
10
"I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots."
10
"I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does."
10
"Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director."
10
"I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world."
10
"Dali was the great painter then and surrealism was a way of life."
10
"I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different."
10
"I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know."
10
"And I liked this extreme character of de Sade."
10
"I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature."
10
"I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts."
10
"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."
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