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Quotes by Director
"The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals."
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"You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility."
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"As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts."
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"Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have."
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"I read, therefore I'm interested in writers."
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"We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe."
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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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"There is incredible power in the arts to inspire and influence."
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"Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful."
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"Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America."
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"The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art."
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"I like the fact that major studios have been attempting horror films recently."
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"I started reading when I was about three, a little over three."
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"At the moment, my mother is the only one left in Glasgow, although it's certainly my home."
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"I think there's an enormous value to being negative. The world we live in today, negativity is not permitted."
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"I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized."
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"These scenes deal with what happened before Hannibal Lecter was captured for the first time."
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"I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned."
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"There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'."
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"Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned."
Film,
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"Honey! Bring down a copy of my will - and an eraser!"
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"The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be."
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"I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities."
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"I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made."
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"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."
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