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You exist only in what you do.

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I never regarded my pictures as very much to be proud of, except in this, the craft, the style.

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A declining institution often experiences survival of the unfittest.

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The present and the past coexist, but the past shouldn't be in flashback.

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Since we had little money and few documents, we had nothing.

- Alain Resnais Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along.

- Ang Lee Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Well, what I try to do is throw as much mud on the wall as I possibly can and just see what sticks, what shines as quirky or more interesting that the others, and I try to cling onto that one, somehow join a link from there to there.

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The life of a repo man is always intense.

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All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.

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Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that.

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There are always at least five good films at the end of the year to get nominated, but generally speaking nowadays, it's more of the independent films that are recognized.

- Mark Rydell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Film is not an easy occupation. There's a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

- George Lucas Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

My cousin Malcolm Lee is also a filmmaker.

- Spike Lee Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Don't think that because you haven't heard from me for a while that I went to sleep. I am still here, like a spirit roaming the night. Thirsty, hungry, seldom stopping to rest.

- Spike Lee Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

We want the best actor, and that's why Matt Damon worked so well in this role, because he's a great actor.

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Other kinds of movie stars, it's a different thing, they bring their persona to the part and that's what people like to see, and they are not really transforming in terms of their character.

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No, we don't have an obsession with kidnapping. We just follow the story wherever it leads us, and if it leads us to kidnapping, well there we are

- Joel Coen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's a funny thing because you look at the careers of other filmmakers, and you see them sort of slow down, and you realize, maybe this becomes harder to do as you get older. That's sort of a cautionary thing. I hope it doesn't happen to me.

- Joel Coen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it.

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Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

- Ken Burns Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Wizards was my homage to Tolkien in the American idiom. I had read Tolkien, understood Tolkien, and wanted to do a sort of fantasy for American kids, and that was Wizards.

- Ralph Bakshi Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.

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I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.

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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

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Film has to describe and show.

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