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" Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s. "

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" I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with. "

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