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Quotes by Director
"In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do."
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"When we did Wayne's World, it was 14 million dollars and they didn't bug us too much because they just thought it was some little movie that nobody was ever going to see. We showed them."
14
"If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office."
14
"What we call 'evil' doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it."
14
"The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them."
14
"My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker."
14
"What you're doing is putting into professional play the way that you relate to other people, the way that you analyze and relate to a written text, the way that you would persuade anybody to do anything. It has to do with listening, with humility and a sense of yourself."
14
"For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident."
14
"I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science."
14
"There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films."
14
"I think they quite like me when I work because I'm one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films don't bring their costs in back home, once they're shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs."
13
"In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids."
13
"The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has."
13
"You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it."
Film,
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"The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself."
13
"Political conflicts distort and disturb a people's sense of distinction between matters of importance and matters of urgency. What is vital is disguised by what is merely a matter of well being."
13
"My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!"
13
"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
13
"People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip."
13
"You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it."
13
"It's easier to be faithful to a restaurant than it is to a woman."
13
"Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television."
13
"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."
13
"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."
13
"Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most."
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"I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies."
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