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Quotes by Director
"We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie."
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"If the movie's well made and it's about things that count, people will ultimately see the depth in it."
30
"Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried."
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"Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives."
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"My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self."
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"No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys."
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"What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be."
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"I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate."
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"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."
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"The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate."
Life,
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"Because I actually find the next take after they've controlled it a little bit and repressed the laughter is actually a really interesting take, because that's still going on underneath the surface. That struggle to maintain composure becomes part of the joy of the scene."
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"Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints."
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"I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off."
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"I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances."
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"Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field."
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"And it really began with Einstein. We attended his lectures. Now the theory of relativity remained - and still remains - only a theory. It has not been proven. But it suggested a completely different picture of the physical world."
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"That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film."
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"I would not be able to pen an academic and dry diatribe. I have too much talent for that."
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"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."
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"We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art."
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"You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness."
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"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."
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"There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed."
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"I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing."
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"I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies."
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"Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, and a good writer."
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"It's nice to know that people appreciate and respect you."
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"There is a certain moment in the film when the son is in the nursing home and he goes to the television and turns it off because he sees himself in the image."
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