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- Orson Welles was a force of nature, who just came in and wiped the slate clean. And Citizen Kane is the greatest risk-taking of all…
- You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit and…
- When everything is added up, the frequent blows weighted against the sporadic triumphs, this is I have to say not just a vocation, it's a…
- Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?
- [Action's] a Western thing. We think of the hero going into battle, rebelling against a government or an oppressor, but [in KUNDUN] action is nonaction…
- I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that…
- I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes…
- I grew up in the Lower East Side, an Italian American - more Sicilian, actually.
- Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.
- I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I…
- People say you should do it this way, someone else suggests that, yes, there's financing, but maybe you should use this actor. And there are…
- If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure…
- Being a father at a later age is different from when I had my other two daughters when I was in my 20s and 30s.…
- I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up,…
- I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know…
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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