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Small: Youre an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot
Stanley Kubrick
"You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot"
Stanley Kubrick, Director
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Small: When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read
"When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit"
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Director
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Small: I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture th
"I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'"
John Sayles, Director
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Small: And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, Were going to develop twenty-five and maybe ones goi
"And it was out in the theaters in two weeks. This is not, 'We're going to develop twenty-five and maybe one's going to get made,' so the first three things I wrote got up on the screen and, good, bad or indifferent, I got to see them on their feet"
John Sayles, Director
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Small: In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it a
"In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth"
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Director
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Small: But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan
"But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan"
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Director
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Small: Not that Ive always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them
"Not that I've always loved the movie when they finally come out, or if they ever come out-because many of them don't come out-but I've gotten to work with really good story editors and stuff like that"
John Sayles, Director
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Small: I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own li
"I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film"
David Cronenberg, Director
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Small: I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even
"I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game"
David Cronenberg, Director
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Small: All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought agains
"All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true"
David Cronenberg, Director
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Small: We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, a
"We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics"
Andrzej Wajda, Director
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Small: On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and s
"On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film"
Andrzej Wajda, Director
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Small: Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and
"Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena"
Andrzej Wajda, Director
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Small: Jake Green isnt just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spec
"Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games"
Guy Ritchie, Director
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Small: Its about not letting the internal enemy, the real enemy, have his way because the more he does the stronger h
"It's about not letting the internal enemy, the real enemy, have his way because the more he does the stronger he becomes. The film's about the devastating results that can manifest from the internal enemy being unbridled and allowed to unleash chaos"
Guy Ritchie, Director
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Small: Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums are, wherever th
"Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty"
John Grierson, Director
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Small: I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film
Francis Ford Coppola
"I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians"
Francis Ford Coppola, Director
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Small: I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for
Francis Ford Coppola
"I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini"
Francis Ford Coppola, Director
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Small: I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so har
Francis Ford Coppola
"I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it"
Francis Ford Coppola, Director
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Small: The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy
"The idea is that that there is no such thing as an external enemy"
Guy Ritchie, Director
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Small: We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightl
"We talked a lot about The Best Intentions and how we could shoot certain scenes in different ways with slightly different bits of dialogue and information, so that later on, we could cut the piece more easily and it would still feel complete, even though it was shorter"
Bille August, Director
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Small: Ive always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary
"I've always thought those guys are really funny. And I love Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and Mary"
David Zucker, Director
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Small: I think decor says a lot about someones social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also
"I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story"
Pedro Almodovar, Director
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Small: I never want to become arrogant and think Ive made a flawless movie
"I never want to become arrogant and think I've made a flawless movie"
Richard King, Director
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Small: My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasnt even
"My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy"
Jay Roach, Director
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Small: Im disappointed. I dont care about Will Smith, I dont want to
"I'm disappointed. I don't care about Will Smith, I don't want to"
Robert Conrad, Director
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Small: But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do somethin
"But I think Barry Sonnenfeld let his ego go out of control. He told me in a meeting that he had to do something to make it his film"
Robert Conrad, Director
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Small: I know people watch our movies and theyll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they dont like,
"I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me"
Bobby Farrelly, Director
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Small: I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply b
"I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television, simply because I don't watch television myself. I'm into movies"
Bille August, Director
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Small: I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of
"I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one"
David Zucker, Director
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