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Quotes by Director
"Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye."
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"I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie."
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"For me a poem has to sing out of itself and the lilt of it carries the magic."
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"But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him."
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"The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage."
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"You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those things increase people's interest in a movie and like that better than worrying about showing the tricks behind the curtain."
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"Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control."
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"I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school."
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"You program music with an image and then people are desensitized."
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"I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story."
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"The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this planet. Nor is it something to which an intelligent person should aspire."
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"Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas."
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"And with Aaron, I'd have to find a reason not to work with him."
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"The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time."
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"Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons."
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"Yeah, I'm certainly a lot more confident on this one than I was one the last one, which I think can be a good thing and a bad thing. But, at least I slept while making this film."
Film,
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"I love nature, I just don't want to get any of it on me."
10
"Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero."
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"The hardest thing about movie acting is that if you're playing a character who changes within the movie, you've got to do that, but you've got to do it out of sequence, because we never have gotten to shoot in sequence, and that's really, really tough."
10
"I watched Someone to Watch Over Me the other night. I thought it was a really good movie. It's a great movie."
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"The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it."
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"The media in America has become so cowed and compromised."
10
"I took two years away from making films to write a novel."
10
"I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off."
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"The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable."
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"The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie."
9
"You know, OJ was a really nice guy, and he knew his lines. He was nice to everybody on the set. He got to be a better actor, I thought, with every movie."
9
"I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding."
9
"I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here."
9
"I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it."
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"Those are just some of the people whom we interviewed in the documentary, but that should provide you with a good sense of the credibility of the individuals who bolster the case that this administration lied us into a war."
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