"As a film actor, you don't often get that opportunity to meet with your audience and take your applause on stage."
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"When you do films that have multiple sequels, you develop a character for a film."
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"When I was asked to make the film, I decided that it was like taking on a new career at the age of sixty-eight. I've never acted before. And taking direction is not something I'm very good at. I've always known who I am and what I was going to do, and I've always just done it."
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"I always find live shows on film kind of boring. Even my favorite ones, I kinda zone out for most of it. It's just so different seeing a band in the flesh and then watching a film of it, even if you have a hundred cameras and it's shot from every angle. There's just a communal, visceral thing that never translates very well."
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"The film Black Orpheus is one of my favorite films of all time, which is set in Carnival in Brazil."
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"You make a film and always hope you're going make "Citizen Kane" or "The Bicycle Thief." You make the film, and for one reason or another, one clicks and one doesn't, but it's out of your control completely."
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"My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and they don't come now."
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"If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right."
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"One filmmaker makes films that are deep, intellectual, profound and confrontational. And the other one makes purely vacuous, escapist films. I'm not sure the one who makes escapist films is making a poorer contribution than the one who makes the deeper films."
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"There's no point in looking back, because there's nothing you can really do to improve the film. You can only aggravate and wish you had done stuff better."
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"Sometimes the critics will like a film, and the public doesn't come. Sometimes the critics won't like the film, and the public will come. It's completely spontaneous. It's a hazard."
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"If you don't have fun doing the film, then the results of the film will never give you any fun."
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"This is history written in lightning."
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"The audience is making the film and not the film-maker."
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"I always thought it would be very funny if I was a blind film director."
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"I've been lucky because my films have consistently made a profit, almost all of them have made a profit. Never a huge profit, but nobody gets hurt. And therefore I get a lot of freedom."
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"I wonder what it's like out there?"
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"When you work in film, you have to be pretty fluent in explaining your vision, especially when speaking to actors, and I found speaking to actors to be so challenging and intimidating on set."
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"I also love Disney, and will defend doing so, because there's so much in those films and I don't care if it's stereotyped."
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"Basically, I love films where everything is great and life is good."
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