- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
The actor always must be in the scene, not above the scene. To communicate any larger ideas is my problem; it's how the narrative is constructed and directed that hopefully does it.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.
- Ellis
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
At least in America, the narrative is I'm a Cannes favorite. But, in fact, I've had my best experience in Venice, both with the audience and the jury.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The word 'operatic' is often misused to mean over the top, where someone is over-emoting. And that does a terrible disservice because 'operatic' to me means a commitment and a belief to the emotion of the moment that is sincere.
- Generation
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.
- Bette
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Melodrama is one of the most stunning art forms. These are stories where the emotions are big, and the situations are big, and the artists believe in the situation dramatically. There's no irony or distance.
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember as a little kid, I would always feel comfortable if the light in the crack of my parents' door was on at night. When it went off, that meant they were asleep. Then that terror and the fear of being by myself started to creep in.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an Ashkenazi Jew, and there are a whole host of genetic disorders that only Ashkenazi Jews have. I don't know if you know this, but 16 or 17 disorders that we carry the gene for.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020