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Quotes by Director
"We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane."
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"Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature."
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"I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France."
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"Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy."
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"It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground."
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"I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words."
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"Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be."
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"A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads."
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"Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political."
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"I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater."
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"There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?"
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"Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that."
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"The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene."
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"It's those moments, those odd moments that you look for and sometimes by creating this kind of loose atmosphere you find those little moments that somehow mean a lot to an audience when they really register right."
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"The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits."
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"So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever."
Car,
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"National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense."
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"I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends."
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"I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films."
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"While the eyes of the world will be on us let's show everyone that we have a great sense of humour."
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"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."
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"Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen."
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"It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one."
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"With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life."
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"Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man."
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
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"I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s."
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"I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds."
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"In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids."
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"There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die."
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"Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates."
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"I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films."
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"I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories."
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"In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll."
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