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| I don't think it's sacrilegious to remake any movie, including a good or even great movie. I think what's sacrilegious is to make a bad movie, whether it's a remake or an original. | |
| I didn't want to make a film about the miracle cure.The truth about most disabilities is it's about living with them - there is no miracle. | |
| I learned that what I'm better at is making stuff lower down the radar. Actually, ideally not on the radar at all. | |
| Other actors might have made 'Bull Durham 2','Tin Cup 2','Dances 2' and 'Bodyguard 2'. But I don't think repeating yourself is very good. | |
| I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying. | |
| Director is little bit of everything, little bit of the writer, little bit of an actor, little bit of an editor, little bit of a costume designer. | |
| I don't value a film I've enjoyed making. If it's good, it's … hard work. | |
| Nobody is without sin. You have to try to make amends if you can. | |
| As a director, I wouldn't like me as an actor. As an actor, I wouldn't like me as a director. | |
| In the 1980s, the so-called indie film movement was a media creation. What I found irritating is that 'independent' became an encomium. | |
| I hate when people cry in movies. It's particularly disconcerting when you're sitting at a really awful movie and you hear people all around you sobbing and blowing their noses. | |
| In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give... an in-depth interview. I'd rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards. | |
| Live like you'll die tomorrow, work like you don't need the money, and dance like nobody's watching. | |
| One of the good things about being in the movie business: you don't have to wait in lines. | |
| I hate and despise the pornography of violence. I don't believe that we can totally excuse ourselves from that situation. | |
| If I made a 'Hellraiser' film, I'd like Pinhead to be whacked against a wall and have all the pins flattened into his face. | |
| As you grow older, you change. I make different films now. You don't make pictures for Oscars. | |
| Redford is a dangerous man to let loose on the streets. He has holes in his head, he should be arrested. | |
| I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write. | |
| I was raised a Catholic on the South Side of Chicago, and I felt I had to undo a lot of serious damage. | |
| I just feel I want to have more fun as a filmmaker, and I'd like to make things that are more fun for the audience. I don't need to be taken any more seriously than I am. | |
| The most expensive habit in the world is celluloid, not heroin, and I need a fix every two years. | |
| If I had to choose between a great acting job and a good directing job, I'd choose the directing job. | |
| I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces. | |
| Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western. | |
| Everybody has bumps, but as Count Basie said, 'It's not how you handle the hills, it's how you handle the valleys.' | |
| I consider my films first and foremost to be dramas about individuals in personal struggles and I consider myself to be a dramatist before I am a political filmmaker. | |
| If you hold a mirror up to society, and you don't like what you see, you can't fault the mirror. It's a mirror. | |
| I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is. | |
| 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. | |
| I was dyslexic before anybody knew what dyslexia was. I was called 'slow'. It's an awful feeling to think of yourself as 'slow' - it's horrible. | |
| My father used to say to me, 'Show 'em what you can do, and don't worry about what you're gonna get. Say you'll work for free and make yourself invaluable.' | |
| The day after I won the Oscar was the only time I ever went to see a psychiatrist. I was profoundly unhappy, I told him I won an Oscar and I didn't think I deserved it. | |
| If you shout in the theater, people think you've gone a bit mad. But if you raise your voice on a film set, people just work a bit harder. | |
| I don't look at scripts. I just write them. | |
| That's what moviemaking is. It's lonely because you asked all of them to work that hard for this idea you had. | |
| Well, in this country… economics dictate that films be in color. | |
| Everything is 'simplify, simplify' now. How many movies have sub-plots anymore? | |
| You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity. | |
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