"When I was 13, I worked for Western Union. When the telegrams came in, I would glue them on the paper and deliver them on my bicycle."
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"The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camera and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever - and it will really become an art form."
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"Cinema without risk is like having no sex and expecting to have a baby."
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"I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor."
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"I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while."
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"The only TV I would be interested in exploring would be live television. There's no substitute for a team of artists performing at their peak live when failure is possible. It's a high-wire act. That excites me."
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"Always make your work be personal. And, you never have to lie... There is something we know that's connected with beauty and truth. There is something ancient. We know that art is about beauty, and therefore it has to be about truth."
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"Lots of people have criticized my movies, but nobody has ever identified the real problem: I'm a sloppy filmmaker."
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"My film isn't about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It's what it was really like. It was crazy. And the way we made it was very much like the way the Americans were in Vietnam. We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment and little by little we went insane."
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"I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school."
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"I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that."
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"I've been failing for, like, ten or eleven years. When it turns, it'll turn. Right now I'm just trying to squeeze through a very tight financial period, get the movie out, and put my things in order."
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"So much of the art of film is to do less. To aspire to do less."
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"I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast"
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"Roger Corman exploited all of the young people who worked for him, but he really gave you responsibility and opportunity. So it was kind of a fair deal."
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"Films and hotels have many aspects that are the same. For example, there is always a big vision, an idea."
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"I always think upon Lee Strasberg with warmth, and reviewing his wisdom is a pleasure."
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"I landed a job with Roger Corman. The job was to write the English dialogue for a Russian science fiction picture. I didn't speak any Russian. He didn't care whether I could understand what they were saying; he wanted me to make up dialogue."
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"Today's winemakers still worry about quality."
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"I don't go on set with an army of people because the most expensive elements of a movie production are the plane tickets, the hotel rooms, food and gasoline. If you're willing to discover new colleagues in the place that you are, you can save a ton of money."
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