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Quotes by Director
"I was frustrated because I couldn't get going, as I was trying to figure out how to make films. I had various jobs, I taught a SAT class, I was a bartender, I had a day job at an office and was making short films."
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"I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style."
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"We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage."
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"There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films."
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"There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'"
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"When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy."
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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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"And we've become very doubtful of our information sources, because they're all controlled by these huge multilateral corporations."
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"I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival."
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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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"Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he'd managed to get the pink cowboy hat."
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"With the coming of radio as a mass medium, suddenly the world changed. It became about, 'can this leader project emotional connection through the way he speaks on the radio?' And the anxiety about whether he could do that, we've inherited."
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"If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script."
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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 are a thousand weird untold stories in the Australian film industry, this has been one of them."
Film,
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"But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan."
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"Science is defined in various ways, but today it is generally restricted to something which is experimental, which is repeatable, which can be predicted, and which is falsifiable."
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"So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true."
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"The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie."
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"The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally."
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"You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it."
Film,
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"Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature."
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"I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful."
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"Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy."
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"I'd love to have another film to go on to. I'm in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally I'll write one myself if I can summon up the energy."
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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 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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"I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films."
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