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Quotes by Producer
"You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world."
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"I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads."
18
"I like Biggie. Like 'Pac, he was one of the best rappers in the business. Why would I try to do something to him?"
18
"Under no circumstances would it be right for me to go with MGM. Irene shares my opinion."
18
"There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end."
18
"It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted."
18
"I like to make pictures about people who make a difference."
18
"It is dishonest the way that people suddenly think they've found guitars, and wear their guitar as a badge."
18
"I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it."
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"Television makes so much at its worst that it can't afford to do its best."
17
"Life goes on pretty much the same way. I've been working on a couple of films on the side. You may see some more. You may even see another television show."
17
"The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying."
17
"She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day."
17
"Forget it, Louis, no Civil War picture ever made a nickel."
17
"I hate a man who always says "yes" to me. When I say "no" I like a man who also says "no.""
17
"Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word "census," and people fall asleep."
17
"My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker."
17
"You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames."
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"I tell you, I feel like a real novice as far as horror goes."
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"You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time."
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"Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them."
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"We have gotten some terrible reviews at times but if we depended on the judgment of the studios or critics, we never would have made more than one movie."
16
"Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves."
16
"But once we got them on its feet then they run themselves, unless there's corrections you have to make."
Feet,
16
"I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on."
16
"So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing."
Will,
16
"Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows."
16
"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."
16
"You're in the business - when you're a writer, producer, director - to get ratings."
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"I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important."
16
"I think that's where reality TV works - you don't know where it's going."
16
"You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked."
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