"You can't fake comedy - it's not like a movie, where a director can just cast a pretty face."
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"On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly."
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"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."
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"I think every director has a different take, some are good, some are bad. The directors you get on best with sometimes don't make the best films, so who's to say who is right?"
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"The director is simply the audience. His job is to preside over accidents."
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"A director is someone who presides over a series of accidents."
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"The director is the most overrated artist in the world. He is the only artist who, with no talent whatsoever, can be a success for 50 years without his lack of talent ever being discovered."
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"I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works."
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"I have always credited the writer of the original material above the title: Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or John Grisham's The Rainmaker. I felt that I didn't have the right to Francis Coppola's anything unless I had written the story and the screenplay."
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"Boards of directors are allowed to work together, so are banks and investors and corporations in alliances with one another and with powerful states. That’s just fine. It’s just the poor who aren’t supposed to cooperate."
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"The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it."
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"All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites."
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"Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes."
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"Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad."
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"A strong film director does leave you to your devices. A strong director allows you to be free and you trust that he's there and he will tell you if you've gone too far. A strong director allows you to be much more experimental and take greater chances than a director who isn't secure within himself."
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"I've never been a fan of directors who clutter a piece with all sorts of crazy preconceptions or weird ideas."
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"I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to."
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"Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story"
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"Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene."
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"I always scout locations first. The apartments, the railway tracks, the café, the canal - I figure out the geography of the film."
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