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" I like characters who don't change, who don't learn from their mistakes. "

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" Again, a franchise to me doesn't have to be a billion dollar title. "

" 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. "

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" There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch. "

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" I like the idea of R-rated franchises. "

" 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. "

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" I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness. "

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

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

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

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" Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. "

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