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• In making movies, time is so short-because it is so expensive-that we tend to neglect the place from which the best ideas…
• Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.
• Take off all your clothes and walk down the street waving a machete and firing an Uzi, and terrified citizens will phone…
• Yes. The whole point about laughter is it’s like mercury: you can’t catch it, you can’t catch what motivates it—that’s why it’s…
• All the theories that acting is reacting to imaginary circumstances as though they are real, and directing is turning psychology into behavior,…
• Any good movie is filled with secrets.
• It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I…
• The only safe thing is to take a chance. Play safe and you are dead. Taking risks is the essence of good…
• The unconscious is our best collaborator.
• Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay…
• There’s nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you’re meant to do. It’s like falling in love.
• The only safe thing in filmmaking is to take a chance.

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