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“The primary relationship on a film, where possible, should be between the director and writer.”

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'It could be better' is the only thing that anyone should write in the margins of their own script.

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Meryl's Donna embodied the spirit of ABBA and 'Mamma Mia!' in the first film.

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And Cher, obviously, can never do anything other than go for it. She's all in.

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Before you turn 40 you think, 'everyone else is going to die, but not me,' then you realize death is certain for everyone.

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I have two girls and one is now nearly a teenager - it is terrifying.

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'Dancing Queen' was the hardest to pull off, all those boats and all those people dancing around the street with boats coming around the…

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I wrote the 'Marigold Hotel' series and with the first one, people hated it in the U.K. but in America they really liked it.

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I have a brilliant memory of being driven back to school when 'Super Trouper' was number one in the charts in 1980. When it…

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You can only shoot in India for three months a year, otherwise it's very inhospitable.

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There's a sports saying, if you aren't playing offense, you're playing defense, so if you are coming back for a sequel not be better…

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Richard Curtis has an encyclopedic knowledge of ABBA, which defeats even mine.

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It's the easiest thing in the world, when you're 80, to not go to India to make a movie.

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I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier.

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I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived.

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There was a time in the 1980s when I worked in 22 films a year.

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To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to…

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In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but…

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I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor…

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I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people.

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Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.…

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I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.…

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I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images

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