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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best cinema is about ethics.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.
- Filmmaking
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
- Sound
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
- don't Care
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.
- Beautiful
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You look at how many years you have left, and you start to think: 'How many more films do I have in me?'
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
- Films
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want all of my films to belong to me.
- Flag
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- Nov 07, 2020
My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
- Nov 07, 2020
Life mixes tones all the time.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.
- Public Service
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's such a pretentious term, but it's auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist... Whatever word you want.
- Humor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
- Someone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.
- Greatest
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- Nov 07, 2020
The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best actors are always the ones who've directed as well, as they understand all the problems you face.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020