"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians."
"I remember in The Conversation, they brought all these coats to me, and they said: Do you want him to look like a detective, Humphrey Bogart? Do you want him to look like a blah blah blah. I didn't know, and said the theme is 'privacy' and chose the plastic coat you could see through. So knowing the theme helps you make a decision when you're not sure which way to go."
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Source: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. Documentary, www.imdb.com. November 27, 1991.
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