"I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience."
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"I had not starred in an independent film and it's about a woman who owned a hair salon."
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"Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new."
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"To convey in the print the feeling you experienced when you exposed your film – to walk out of the darkroom and say: ‘This is it, the equivalent of what I saw and felt!’. That’s what it’s all about."
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"Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown."
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"I've made films about the middle classes because I know them best. Everyone talks about what he knows best."
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"Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film."
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"I haven't done as many films as I would have liked."
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"Don't shy away from producing your own film and being in charge of its business end as well."
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"The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing."
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"The great appeal of film is its relatability."
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"I don't want to create a revolution - I just want to create a few more films."
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"Nothing quite like it. The feeling of film."
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"I've done a lot of films that have become iconic, not necessarily because of me."
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"People should not pass judgment until they have seen the film."
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"I don't watch much TV or films, but I've watched Cameron Diaz."
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"I don't think I make genre movies. There is a certain type of violence in my films but I think I have my own genre because I made it happen like that."
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"You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director."
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"Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days."
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"Some people receive medication in order to properly deliver films."
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