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• It's so easy to manipulate an audience, but it's nearly always clear that you are being manipulated. I think even people that…
• Movie-making is the process of turning money into light. All they have at the end of the day is images flickering on…
• There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then…
• You can't get an actor to do something that is beyond his range, so you have to be aware of the range…
• When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting.
• All the great legends are Templates for human behavior. I would define a myth as a story that has survived.
• I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.
• I look at the story, I look at the idea and just try to think of it in terms of that whole…
• I was in Japan, and my assistant director had worked with Kurosawa. I used quite of number of Kurosawa's crew.
• I'm trying to suggest a kind of Middle Earth, in Tolkien terms. It's a contiguous world; it's like ours but different.
• The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that…
• What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most…

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