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" I'm totally anti-commercialism. "

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" For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid. "

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" I was a disinterested student. "

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

" I like studios. I just don't like bureaucracies. "

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

Professionalism

" A lot of people hated 'Alien 3.' "

" 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. "

" Yet as a director, I don't feel you have to identify with your characters as a requirement to make a movie. "

" The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two. "

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

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

" It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages. "

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

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