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Quotes by Director
"Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard."
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"I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free."
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"Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things."
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"I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor."
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"If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies."
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"As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it."
7
"In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids."
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"I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films."
7
"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."
7
"I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another."
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"When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration."
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"For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury."
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"Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way."
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"I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work."
Work,
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"The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional - the idea. That's what is original to you."
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"For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery."
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"You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know."
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"If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds."
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"All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us."
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"The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine."
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"A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads."
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"I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images."
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"I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater."
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"I think ultimately if you have a very high expectation of your audience and you know exactly what it is you're trying to express through the medium of film, there will always be an audience for you."
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"The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce."
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"There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way the emotions were handled. I thought, I'd really like to do that."
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