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I'm also extremely grateful that I discovered my passion. I love movies. I love to watch them, I love to make them.
Early on, I got very nervous, I thought I had taken on the wrong assignment. I remember thinking, 'You just signed on to make a film about accounting', that's like Rule No. 23b in the film maker's handbook: Never make a film about accounting.
I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.
A lot of people say my work borrows from Hitchcock, but I think if I've stolen, of course I've stolen, this is a parasitic medium,
but if I'm parasitic of anyone it's Welles, and Michael Pal and Kazan,
those are my guys. The James Whale stuff.
I love the old B&W movies, like classic paintings.
If a movie is described as a romantic comedy you can usually find me next door playing pinball.
The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded.
The image it once held for us all, that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open, has disappeared.
Is it still possible that one thousand people might group together in the dark and experience the dream that a single individual has directed?.
I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
If I tried to make money for a Jane Austen movie, I'd get laughed out of the office.
I don't like all the deferential humor, I think it detracts. Laugh with it, not at it.
Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.
A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.
There is so much to do on a film set. It is an extraordinarily invigorating and wonderful place to be, when things are running well.
When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.
If you watch the credits of any movie to the very end you will see at least one person listed who has the same last name as the director or one of the producers.
I've been asked where I'm going to shoot The Horse Soldiers. I think I'll shoot it in Lourdes because it's going to take a miracle to make anything of it.
Its simple. PG means the hero gets the girl, 15 means that the villain gets the girl and 18 means that everybody gets the girl.
Then came Easy Rider a disaster in the history of film to set beside the loss of Technicolor the early death of Murnau and the longevity of Richard Attenborough.