"Drinking wine is just a part of life, like eating food."
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"Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays."
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"It takes no imagination to live within your means."
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"Movies are the art form most like man's imagination."
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"I had been a kid that moved so much, I didn’t have a lot of friends. Theater really represented that kind of camaraderie."
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"A director is the ringmaster of a circus that's inventing itself."
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"I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant."
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"I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button."
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"In a sense, I think a movie is really a little like a question and when you make it, that's when you get the answer."
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"A number of images put together a certain way become something quite above and beyond what any of them are individually."
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"Wine is so much more than a beverage. It's a romance, a story, a drama-all of those things that are basically putting on a show."
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"The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college."
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"Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature."
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"You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it."
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"The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art."
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"There can't be art without risk. It's like saying No Sex, and then expecting there to be children."
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"So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite."
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"Sound is your friend because sound is much cheaper than picture, but it has equal effect on the audience - in some ways, perhaps more effect because it does it in a very indirect way."
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"I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic."
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"The essence of cinema is editing."
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