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“Many filmmakers pretend that they never see anything, which has always seemed odd to me.”

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When you see the films of certain young directors, you get the impression that film history begins for them around 1980.

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And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

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Kubrick is a machine, a mutant, a Martian. He has no human feeling whatsoever. But it's great when the machine films other machines, as…

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I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte,…

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And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

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And Twin Peaks, the Film is the craziest film in the history of cinema. I have no idea what happened, I have no idea…

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Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director.

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Their films would probably be better if they'd seen a few more films, which runs counter to this idiotic theory that you run the…

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For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

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Cocteau is someone who has made such a profound impression on me that there's no doubt he's influenced every one of my films.

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I guess I like a lot of directors. Or at least I try to.

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As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

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I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

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