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Quotes by Director
"Colombian humor is very black, very sarcastic."
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"It's easier for me to get three times the amount of money I really want."
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"People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient."
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"Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?"
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"I know how sobering and exhausting parenthood is. But the reality is that our children's future depends on us as parents. Because we know that the first years truly last forever."
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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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"And with Aaron, I'd have to find a reason not to work with him."
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"That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film."
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"Working with the same people is so much quicker and frees up your energy for other things."
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"And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet."
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"In a relationship you have to open yourself up."
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"We're producing a movie now, 'The Onion' Movie, and it's very difficult for me to be on the set. If I'm not right in the trenches, it's very difficult for me to watch another director, because I'm not involved and it's not exciting."
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"I started making 8mm films when I was 13, so I've been directing for 21 years."
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"I cannot forget a conversation that I had with an elderly couple from the tribe. They asked me whether I would kill them after I had finished. When I asked them why they asked that, they replied, Because you white men always do!"
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"Being with an insanely jealous person is like being in the room with a dead mammoth."
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"You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me."
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"The best actors instinctively feel out what the other actors need, and they just accommodate it."
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"People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities."
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"You start as an audience member and create a world you're interested in, and then you move into the telling of those stories, bringing what has interested you as an audience member."
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"I had no idea that it was gonna take off the way it did. I thought we made a good movie."
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"Acting is probably the greatest therapy in the world. You can get a lot stuff out of you on the set so you don't have to take it home with you at night. It's the stuff between the lines, the empty space between those lines which is interesting."
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"In my teens, I developed a passionate idolatry for a teacher of English literature. I wanted to do something that he would approve of more, so I thought I should be some sort of a scholar."
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"As a filmmaker you get typecast just as much as an actor does, so I'm trapped in a genre that I love, but I'm trapped in it!"
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"Sitting in this chair, my recommendation would carry too much weight."
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"There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake."
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"I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me."
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"I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul."
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"Actually, I loved Chucky. It's one of the strangest movies I've ever seen."
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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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