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american-director thrown thus
More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England. Albert Bushnell Hart
american-director colony local sets
In each colony in 1750 were to be found two sets of governing organizations, - the local and the general.
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The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
american-director movies sit version
It's a big part of what we do - we test our movies extensively. I'm always there myself. It's sometimes difficult to sit through, especially if it's a version of the movie that's not working particularly well. Bobby Farrelly
american-director both tend
I think we both have some darkness in us. But when we are together, we tend to concentrate more on the light.
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We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor.
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I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me.
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Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.
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To do that I try and keep myself in pretty good shape physically and I try to lead my life in such a way that I'll be able to be as strong at the end of the movie as I am in the beginning. John Frankenheimer
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Todd and I have a very complementary working style . Sam Wood
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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Fahrenheit 9/11 took public domain information that should have been on the news every night and put it in a film that a lot of people went to see. But still Bush has never had to answer those charges. John Sayles
american-director director discovered head stayed
But once I discovered that there was such a thing as a screenwriter and a director and all that, it stayed in my head as a possibility.
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When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer. Joel Coen
american-director loved television
When I went to live television, I loved it. But television was so new and undeveloped that actors had to concede to the equipment. Richard Donner
american-director people
What's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority. Robert Altman
american-director
If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
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It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction. Rob Reiner
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We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe. David Fincher
american-director bunch people
We collaborate on everything. I'm involved in the writing and pre-production. There's a whole bunch of people who keep in touch at every step about everything. Jay Roach
american-director ourselves rewrite script work
You can kind of tell what's working and what isn't. We work on part of the script ourselves and then switch. And we rewrite each other's stuff.
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We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire.
american-director hour loved preparing specials
When I was doing half-hour shows, I loved it and was preparing myself for the hour shows. Then when I did the hour shows, I was preparing myself for the specials and features.
american-director fun
We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it. Ethan Coen
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We haven't had to defend anything to anybody.
american-director talks
I mean, Joel talks to the actors more than I do and I probably do production stuff a little more than he does.
american-director concerns incredibly people period
I wanted to make these people real, not like they were in a painting. Like these are people who don't know they're in a period movie. Those concerns are incredibly immediate. Neil LaBute
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Over and over again-in the movie, I have nine different people who have worked for Fox News network who have come forward and talked on camera, three of them anonymously, by the way. Robert Greenwald
american-director believe good gotta touch
I'm here to make good pictures. If I don't see it, I won't touch it. I may not make a good picture, but I still gotta believe in it! William Wyler
american-director bigger both expect kinds movies scale smaller
Well all kinds of movies that you wouldn't expect that I'd want to do, both bigger scale and smaller scale than the ones I've done. Cameron Crowe
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Just go out there and do it. It's not the easiest path.
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I wonder if I had gone for laughter and tears from the start how sad (the movie) would've been.
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I worked for the studios, making those comedies, and I found I could make enough money then to be able to do the work I was passionate about. Penelope Spheeris