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• My wife thinks I have an obsession with social class. So I guess I have an obsession with social class. It probably…
• What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between…
• The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for…
• The closer you can get to being personal, the better the work is, or the more interesting the work is.
• William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.
• The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.
• I start with a mood or an idea that comes from a personal place emotionally, and the narrative concepts come much later.
• My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side…
• Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.
• For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it…
• The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move…
• When I was quite young, I dreamed of being a painter.

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