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Quotes by Director
"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."
Film,
31
"I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images."
31
"It's a fantastic review. Sixty percent of the American reviews are sensational, 20% are mixed, not so good."
31
"I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office."
31
"All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives."
31
"I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing."
31
"Till now I have never shot a scene without taking account of what stands behind the actors because the relationship between people and their surroundings is of prime importance."
31
"Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything."
31
"Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt."
31
"Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be."
31
"Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts."
31
"It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there."
31
"A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it."
Want,
31
"Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good."
31
"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life."
31
"I think what some people are doing with effects is starting to get silly. It's overused."
31
"I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse."
31
"Movies are an art form that is very available to the masses."
31
"What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance."
31
"I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied."
31
"We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore."
31
"I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done."
31
"I hope we're all kind of influencing each other now to keep the quality up on those things. They seem to be getting better and better and better as there's not only sort of a film geek audience, there's also a general interest in the overall film consuming population."
31
"I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films."
31
"Consciousness is the glory of creation."
31
"I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does."
31
"I like cinema audiences. I respect them, and I talk to them just like I would anybody I know."
31
"When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience."
31
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