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Quotes by Director
"In 1905 Albert discovered Relativity, in 1906 he invented Rock and Roll."
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"My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!"
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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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"There's a great danger in making this seem more important than it is, this whole Free Cinema thing."
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"Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey."
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"The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy."
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"More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down."
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"When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do."
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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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"I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know."
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"There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work."
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"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."
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"It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake."
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"Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health."
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"I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing."
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"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."
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"Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film."
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"I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all."
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"The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don't have."
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"You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again."
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"That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort."
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"I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden."
Time,
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"You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead."
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"It's part of the general global hypnotism to accept lies as the new truth."
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"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."
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"I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!"
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"Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins."
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