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Quotes by Director
"In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family."
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"Cinema has become a global economy, totally international."
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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying."
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"The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order."
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"I love doing big movies. It's awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don't tell anyone, but I'd do this for free."
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"Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me."
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"I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world."
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"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."
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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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"I had the X rating on my films. Now they do as much on The Simpsons as I got an X rating for Fritz the Cat."
Now,
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"Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across."
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"My greatest thrill was the day Mad magazine spoofed 'Ghost.'"
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"Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates."
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"I was making films when I was about 12 years old - Super-8 films."
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"I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it."
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"My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience."
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"It's not a monster movie. It's a supernatural thriller."
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"When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it."
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"The only things you regret are the things you don't do."
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"Making movies is eating candy. It's a very expensive candy, so you value when you can do it. So when you can do it twice at once, it's like, you know, a kid in a candy store!"
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"Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material calls for. It cannot be superimposed."
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"The journey of your first movie is not just beyond belief it can be truly beyond satire."
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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."
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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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"Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing."
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