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Quotes by Director
"You think about taking audiences on a journey."
61
"A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses."
60
"Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more."
60
"I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself."
60
"There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die."
60
"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."
60
"All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres."
60
"The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy."
60
"So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good."
60
"After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world."
60
"Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema."
60
"The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy."
60
"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."
60
"Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside."
60
"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."
60
"Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker."
60
"I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue."
60
"I think all great actors - and I don't classify myself as one of them, incidentally - but I think all great actors listen well and I've learned that from a lot of the very good actors with whom I've worked - to really listen to what people say."
60
"There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard."
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60
"We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense."
60
"Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it."
60
"One fine day I discovered that more complex plays really have to be directed."
60
"I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing."
60
"I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story."
60
"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."
60
"I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything."
59
"There's still a 1950s view of cinema, that there's one audience and they all want to see the same thing."
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