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- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.
- Jump
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- Nov 07, 2020
Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.
- Evaluate
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I admit there's an element of brutality in all my work - it's part of the truth about human existence I always want to explore - but the last thing I'm trying to do is put on some kind of freak show, inviting people to get off on other people's pain and humiliation.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I want to show the kind of meanness people are capable of, to make it believable I find I have to tone it down. It's in real life that people are over the top.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things.
- Nov 07, 2020
So far, at least, I haven't found a way to tell my kind of stories without making them both sad and funny.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.
- Distinctive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of it has to do with this business of being approached in public. I have a distinctive look - it's partly the glasses I wear - and people seem to remember me once they've seen me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.
- Dress
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- Nov 07, 2020
And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.
- Hardly
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
People can't help how they look.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I mean is, I'm not the kind of audience comedy directors want at a test screening because I seldom laugh, and if I do, it's not very loud. That doesn't mean I don't like the movie.
- Censored
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually the audience has no idea that the censored version of whatever movie they're watching isn't the original.
- Fate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Storytelling is the only studio movie where the censorship is perfectly clear, the only studio movie with a big red box covering up a shot. I take pride in that - and, of course, in having avoided the fate of Eyes Wide Shut.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement.
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