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Quotes by Director
"Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing."
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"Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff."
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"Can you imagine what it would be like if all the Aussie film talent was able to make Australian stories?"
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"In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk."
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"The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood."
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"I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience."
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"I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed."
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"But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan."
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"When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies."
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"It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake."
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"In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows."
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"The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to."
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"You are faced with the choice: either my integrity remains intact and this is the work that ends up on the screen, or I have to leave, and I have to be known to have left."
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"Directing an opera is similar to directing a play. The singing must not get in the way of the drama."
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"You think about taking audiences on a journey."
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"I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema."
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"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
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"Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard."
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"Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office."
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"You know, I can't remember the last movie I walked out of. If I pay, I'll see it through. I can't be halfway through a movie and think that I know everything that's going to happen, because I hope that I'm wrong."
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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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"If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart."
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"If you win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month."
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"Then I usually leave the choice of the second assistant director and any other assistant directors to the first assistant director, who will choose because he or she is responsible for the conduct and the efficiency of the second assistant directors."
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"I don't think of Storefront Hitchcock or Stop Making Sense as documentaries, I think of them more as performance films."
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"I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds."
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"As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it."
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"I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize."
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"When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!"
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"I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible."
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