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Quotes by Director
"My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them."
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"I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it."
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"It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form."
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"And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations."
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"Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know."
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"So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris."
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"I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image."
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"I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun."
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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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"What is attempted in these film is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure."
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"Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?"
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"Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life."
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"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious."
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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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"I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly."
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"The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe."
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"An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture."
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"It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth."
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"I like films to have something inside, I don't mean a message, I mean something from the soul."
Soul,
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"Perhaps the most difficult thing is shooting scenes set 6,000 feet up in the mountains of Mexico."
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"Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal."
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"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."
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"You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization."
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"I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece."
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"Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they're on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on."
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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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"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."
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"Usually, the stuff that's your best idea or work is going to be attacked the most."
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"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."
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