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american-director
It is up to us to produce better-quality movies. Lloyd Kaufman
american-director poet
Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.
american-director blood born music poetry privilege silver spoon
To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.
american-director million reckon
I reckon this could mean another 10 million at the box office. Blake Edwards
american-director experience time
It's been my experience that every time I think I know where it's at, it's usually somewhere else.
american-director certain choice flavor movies style
We probably weren't the first choice because our movies have a certain style and flavor to them which is kind of inconsistent to each one. Bobby Farrelly
american-director return
I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years. Tobe Hooper
american-director certain movies scene sick watch
There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch. David Fincher
american-director films
I made three films with Douglas, two with Charles Boyer. Vincente Minnelli
american-director bit contract grew less pieces player work
I was doing acting work at Fox - bit pieces with Greg Peck in The Gunfighter and things like that - and grew up more or less as a Fox contract player in about two years.
american-director producer union
I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.
american-director came died hard
It's... a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It's the worst thing you'll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again. Michael Bay
american-director brought guess involved rodney
When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience. Kathryn Bigelow
american-director build characters filmmakers gone stories truths universal
It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well. Cameron Crowe
american-director shoot
Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative. John Sayles
american-director apart country falls money tear
France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. Billy Wilder
american-director prove strangest
Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point. Richard Linklater
american-director financed trying
I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
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I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.
american-director farther hundred nourished poems poetry
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. James Broughton
american-director benefit leadership true
True leadership must be for the benefit of the followers, not the enrichment of the leaders. Robert Townsend
american-director bucks hit million relatively
Yeah, there's absolutely. I mean, remember when The Searchers came out, it was a relatively big hit for a Western, and I think it made 5 million bucks - I don't even think it made that. John Milius
american-director feeding stuff
You know, why don't you take him off all this stuff you have him hopped up on, all this garbage that we're feeding him, all this sugar and caffeine, and then see what happens? Morgan Spurlock
american-director children common running
In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here. Penelope Spheeris
american-director
It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it.
american-director literally rabid
Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera.
american-director
I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people. Steven Soderbergh
american-director either sent
When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.
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The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.
american-director effects experts hard
There are so many effects and so many things that are done digitally now that it's so hard for the director to really control the process, because there are more and more experts that come in. John Frankenheimer
american-director amount billion dollars obscene spends television themselves
Just McDonald's by themselves spends 1.2 billion dollars a year. And that's just radio, television and print. That's an obscene amount of money.
american-director designer explain relate settings
Having started as a designer I have a lot to do with settings and costumes, because I think they relate to the story and character, explain it.
american-director available couple
He said he wanted me to play a part, and he's done that a couple of times before but I haven't been available because I was making my own pictures. Mark Rydell