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• Style is something that's extremely important, but it must grow naturally out of who and what you are and what the material…
• Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If i had to pay money to do it, I would…
• But the audience is right. They're always, always right. You hear directors complain that the advertising was lousy, the distribution is no…
• The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the…
• Directing is a nice job. It's the best job for me. If I had to pay money to do it, I would…
• Technique is of less interest than character and story.
• Edgar Allan Poe is considered the great writer of horror stories, perhaps the greatest - I will say the greatest
• I really think that sex always looks kind of funny in a movie.
• Violence is not funny.
• The informing idea of what you want to say and do, that's what will take you from film school to professional -…
• I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes…
• And it was only a week later that I realized a close up of Steve McQueen was worth the greatest landscape you…

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