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Quotes by Director
"We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties."
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"A collection of huts surrounded by a barbed wire fence, and in the huts lived 500 of the original inhabitants of our area. And so it went with many country towns around Australia."
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"Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years."
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"I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself."
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"There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die."
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"My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can achieve central planning without loss of individual initiative, by the mere process of absorbing initiative in the function of planning."
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"I failed to make the chess team because of my height."
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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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"I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to."
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"Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself."
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"The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple."
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"It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen."
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"We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait."
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"My advice to young film-makers is this: don't follow trends, start them!"
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"It irritated me that my fans kept wanting me to retread old ground."
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"When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on."
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"This technology will obviously become more prevalent. Who knows what will result? One thing is certain, computer technology will revolutionize the way we tell stories as much as movie film has."
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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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"Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be."
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"People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip."
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"In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about."
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"Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!"
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"Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live."
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"I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant."
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"This one, even though it called for San Francisco, I think they wanted to initially shoot part of the film up here, you know get the exteriors and then go back to L.A. We really fought to get it up here and I think Paramount was really pleased."
Film,
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"You are traveling and see these people shooting the entire experience of going through a city, and maybe in the back of their minds they sustain the illusion that they will edit it all, but I don't think that's it."
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"See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?"
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"There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry."
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"My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way."
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"There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance."
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