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Quotes by Director
"Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention."
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"Now a movie goes out to two, three thousand theaters and by Friday night at 10 o'clock they know if you are in or out. That desperate competition is, I think, horrendous. It's awful."
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"We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how we perceive reality."
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"People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice."
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"My goal is to make as many films as possible about different aspects of American life."
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"Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough!"
Now,
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"You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice."
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"I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script."
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"As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing."
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"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."
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"When I got lucky with Dean, I ended up with 16 years with one of the truly great performers of all time. He was the greatest performer I'd ever been around, bar none."
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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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"Actually, after the release of the Bond film, the producers came back to me to offer me another one, but I didn't have any juice left for an immediate encore."
Film,
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"I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present."
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"There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like a giant motel. People want to have it be authentic in the look, and authentic in the way people behave."
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"Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience."
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"I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart."
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"I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do."
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"In discussing the process with the actors, I made it clear to them that they could improvise but that the sum total of their improvisation needed to impart certain plot points, and schematic material."
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"The art of motion pictures is pictorial and language comes a distant second."
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"Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations."
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"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"
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"Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith Hooper, was invited in late 2007 by some Australian friends to make up a token Australian audience in a tiny fringe theater play reading of an unproduced, unrehearsed play called 'The King's Speech.'"
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