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Quotes by Director
"I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own."
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"You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy."
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"A lot of people are upset that I'm not working. They say it's a disgrace."
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"I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form."
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"Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real."
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"Well, I always run the risk of falling on my face, which has in fact happened."
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"Commitment is the enemy of resistance, for it is the serious promise to press on, to get up, no matter how many times you are knocked down."
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"I think he was explicit that it was a slave labor situation, but I was not alarmed at that point, because there were so many tragedies involved in that war. That was the first time I had any indication that something was sort of strange."
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"The simple answer is I'd just be a guy trying to feed my family, like everybody else. The complicated answer is, I think I'd be in some sort of military or government world of some sort."
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"A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience."
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"Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there."
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"Well, a special screening was set up for government officials, so they didn't have to see the experience of going to see the film. They certainly aren't going to the projects to see for themselves the situation."
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"If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will."
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"I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice."
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"My two elder sisters married Englishmen and went abroad."
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"But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking."
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"No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them."
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"What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes."
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"There are genres I don't care for, and I've never worked in those genres, and then sometimes there are people that I haven't liked and I haven't worked for those people. But if I feel like there's a movie that I would like to go see, I'll jump into it."
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"And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story."
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"The actors are in control, getting outrageous amounts of money. The reason they're getting this kind of money is because the studios don't know what else to do. They don't have a clue about what to do except to pay an actor a lot of money."
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"Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words."
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"Don't you hear people saying things you can't believe they're saying?"
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"We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities."
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"In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem."
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"God is silent. Now if only man would shut up."
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