"I've become a body of films, not a man, I am all those films."
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"I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they'll reference a beautifully obscure film from the '50s or '60s or '70s, and I've not seen it."
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"If there's ever a problem, I film it and it's no longer a problem. It's a film."
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"For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas."
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"Making films is - or should be - a very personal experience. You shouldn't listen to anybody, other than the people you choose to listen to."
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"In many points in history films and filmmakers have been banned for political reasons- that's how annoying they can be to oppressing systems, how dangerous."
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"With music, you can portray a certain thing, but in film, sometimes you have to let yourself go to a point where that can be attractive to a person, that you're willing to let yourself go that much. It works both ways."
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"I never ever see a film of mine after I release it to the public. I see it when I shoot it in my dailies and while I'm editing it, re-editing it and reshooting it and all that. By the time it's finished I never want to see it again."
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"My films are a form of psychoanalysis, except that it is I who am paid, which changes everything."
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"Everyone I've worked with on any film will say I'm the hardest worker."
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"In my films that I've directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I've rarely used handheld. It's just not something I'm drawn to, but I've seen it done very well."
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"In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret."
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"If I just know in my gut that a film is going to work, I'll fight to the death over it, and I convince myself. When a movie is purely a money job, the film doesn't have the same sort of intensity, and the audience almost senses it, at least that's the way I perceive it. So, yeah, the idea is to do something that you truly, truly believe in."
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"Everyone has this conjecture that action films are somewhat less prestigious than dramatic films. Nothing could be further from the truth. I've done them both and this is hard and dangerous."
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"You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful."
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"Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying."
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"I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace."
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"You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognized that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered."
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"I only really watch my own films, I don't watch any other films and I don't particularly like any other actors."
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"I believe in fate, that films happen when they are supposed to."
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