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Quotes by Director
"We met in Cracker. I played a maniac fan who murders a policeman and she did my makeup. I thought anyone interested in me looking like that must have genuinely liked me."
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"I've had 79 to 80 years of show business. I started when I was 5 with a man called Tom Mix. I didn't have time to go to school because I was in silent movies, I was in radio, I was in burlesque, I worked with the circus. I'm all show business!"
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"I felt that if there wasn't going to be a good opportunity, then I would just go back to second units which I love, keep working with great directors, keep learning and knowing that the opportunity would come when the time was right."
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"I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country."
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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 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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"I think violence in a cinematic context can be, if handled in a certain way, very seductive."
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"Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face."
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"I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters."
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"I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions."
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"We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age, so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts."
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"We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things."
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"Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that."
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"I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist."
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"You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing."
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"I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like."
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"I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me."
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"Class isn't something you buy. Look at you. You have a $500 suit on and you're still a lowlife."
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"After Bound, we were offered a lot of lesbian thrillers."
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"I wanted to make a film about stupid people that was very vulgar and deeply stupid. From that moment on I can hardly be reproached for making a film that is about stupid people."
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"I have never seen a connection between cinematic violence towards women and actual violence towards women in society."
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"Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness."
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"It's always a pleasure to find something that matters."
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