"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."
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"When you decide you want to make a film, you start listening to everything that anyone has to say about filmmaking and reading everything, and there's a maxim about film being a visual medium, and so you need to make, in a sense, a silent movie and layer on dialogue."
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"This inspiring film has the power to transform your health!"
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"I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever."
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"But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film."
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"I turned down a lot of things that were so-called commercial. You're coming out of one film, and then they want you to be in the same one."
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"The best thing about making films is the time spent making them. When I see works that I've made, I always think what a great time I had making them. The films remind me of that time."
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"I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself."
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"I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future."
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"I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels."
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"When I make a new movie, I always get stuck with, "That's not an Oliver Stone film." But I don't know what to do about that except just move on."
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"A movie in production is the greatest train set a boy could ever have."
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"If everyone worked with wide-angle lenses, I'd shoot all my films in 75mm, because I believe very strongly in the possibilities of the 75mm."
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"There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life."
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"Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time."
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"I always found the film world unpleasant. It's all about the schedule, and never really flew for me."
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"Ten Days That Shook The World, by Eisenstein, I went to see it, and I was so impressed with this film, so impressed with what cinema could do."
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"The very earliest people who made film were magicians."
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"My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam."
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"When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures."
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