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Quotes by Director
"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."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"My personal view is that such total planning by the state is an absolute good and not simply a relative good... I do not myself think of the attitude I take as deriving from Marx - though this undoubtedly will be suggested - but from Fichte and Hegel."
7
"My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy."
7
"However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years."
7
"So then I started doing a lot of episodic TV, just car chases or helicopter chases or whatever."
Car,
7
"Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most."
7
"There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better."
7
"I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed."
7
"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."
7
"I used this line to demonstrate how important colors are in movies: It's not a caprice."
7
"With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting."
7
"My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker."
7
"I see technology as being an extension of the human body."
7
"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema."
7
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
7
"I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s."
7
"If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart."
7
"Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me."
6
"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?"
6
"Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently."
6
"The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe."
6
"I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films."
6
"Monofilament is what you use to go fishing. The line on your fishing rod is probably going to be black. You get to the end of the line and you tie on this clear plastic, thin thread called monofilament."
6
"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
6
"I think we're lucky because there are very few people in life who get to do what we're doing."
6
"We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties."
6
"A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia."
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