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- I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.
- I have this new theory about films. It’s almost like astrology, where if we started on a Tuesday the film will be different than if…
- Apparently there’s this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, it’s totally…
- When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like…
- When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.
- Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up.
- I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.
- If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.
- The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to…
- If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have…
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