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Quotes by Director
"To be a novelist, all I need is a pen and a piece of paper."
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"In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales, all the classic fairy tales."
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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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"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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"You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown."
Film,
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"We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd."
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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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"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 whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level."
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"I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing."
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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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"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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"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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"Bullshit french post-war rationalizing."
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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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"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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"I still get excited about meeting celebrities, because I don't think I'm a celebrity myself."
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"Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings."
Life,
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"There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest."
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"There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them."
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"Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare."
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"When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit."
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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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