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" Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted. "

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" How do you shoot a 150-day movie? You shoot it one day at a time. "

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" My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive. "

Professionalism

" When I'm watching somebody act, it's a behavior editorial function - I look at someone act, and I might say, 'I don't believe him when he says that.' I don't know why I don't believe him, probably because the people that I've met, they don't act like that when they say stuff like that and mean it. "

" In film, we sculpt time, we sculpt behaviour and we sculpt light. "

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" You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them. "

" We were working with this lousy print and it just wasn't going to be good enough. I said that we should get the original negative and do it from that. Well, a couple guys pointed out that the negative was locked up over at Deluxe. "

" If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt. "

" I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out. "

" Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box. "

" I'm totally anti-commercialism. "

" And I love shooting football. "

" Some people go to the movies to be reminded that everything's okay. I don't make those kinds of movies. "

" When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people. "

" A movie is made for an audience and a film is made for both the audience and the film-makers. "