"Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino."
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"I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager."
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"Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream."
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"Bad directors will tell you they absolutely know how to do it, and how it has to happen; there's this insecurity that leads them to feeling like they have to control everything."
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"How people are around a director, it really does affect everything, every detail of the life of the movie."
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"I try to just make what I want to make or what I would want to see. I try not to think about the audience too much."
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"The photographer and the director are where reality and fantasy meet."
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"I've been offered lots of movies. There's always some actor who's doing a project and would like to have me do it. But you look at the project and think, 'Gee, there are a lot of good directors who could do that.' I'd like to do something only I can do."
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"I feel like a good director provokes you to ask questions about your character, but doesn't answer them for you."
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"In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life."
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"Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer."
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"Most directors have one masterpiece by which they are known. Kurosawa has at least eight or nine."
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"Time management is a big part of the director's job."
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"I'm not interested in being a celebrity; I'm interested in being a better actor and a better director."
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"I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker."
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"I can't imagine any director directing a screenplay of mine, because the great directors all have very personal styles, and the ones that don't are not very interesting directors."
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"I love films. I love fiction films, too. I do. I love making them, but it has to be the right one. Hopefully, I'll never become a director for hire. It's horrible to make a film that you're not really interested in."
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"My kind of director is an actor-director who writes."
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"I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before."
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"A director who gets $150,000 per year from a company and needs the money is not independent."
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