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Quotes by Director
"It's hard to blame someone because they simply don't have time."
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"I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to."
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"Advertising was fairly simple work, and I really just wanted a job where I could sit and write every day and not get fired for it like I had at other jobs, but it was fun."
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"Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice."
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"So to hope to be able to have peace, to be able to have justice and environmental balance, are consequences of our behavior, not just our intentions."
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"Much of Indian science seems intuitive and not bound by the rigid thinking of classical scientists."
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"In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision."
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"I have no interest in directing. I'd be a bad director."
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"Films are hard to make and I think the word indulge really leads one to believe that it's an easy sort of business and it's really extremely difficult."
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"When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work."
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"Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges."
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"I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later."
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"I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction."
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"I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose."
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"I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives."
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"Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me."
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"I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it."
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"You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member."
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"If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial."
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"I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse historians in the next century, because they'll have, in addition to all the print material, they'll have all these pictures to look at."
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"I was able to go from stage hand to floor manager to assistant director to director in a year because there was just no one else to do it and what I didn't realise and what people don't understand now about television is that we used to do about five shows a day."
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"We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience."
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"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."
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"Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out."
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