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Quotes by Director
"On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from."
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"My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker."
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"The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed."
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"Cinema has become a global economy, totally international."
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"I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing."
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"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."
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"I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all."
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"To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper."
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"I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone."
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"Well, there's that girl on the Internet - although this isn't an example of someone who doesn't know they're on - but there's a girl on the Internet who posts one photograph every two minutes from her bedroom."
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"I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it."
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"The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy."
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"Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know."
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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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"Being in an area of the planet where scientists believe mankind started is quite amazing."
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"Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker."
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"We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd."
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"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."
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"Eventually, the state's funding covered only the stages leading to presenting a film project to potential funding bodies. It was enough to produce a script, indicate casting and put together a budget to present it all, but nothing beyond that."
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"My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on."
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"You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost."
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"I use colors to bring fine points of story and character."
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"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."
Man,
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"If the boy and girl walk off into the sunset hand-in-hand in the last scene, it adds 10 million to the box office."
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"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."
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"Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye."
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"Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas."
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"If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble."
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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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"I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day."
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