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Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.

- Alain Resnais Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

When I have a full schedule like that, I don't see myself sitting there for a couple of months, doing the research, going through a painful process, it's just not my thing anymore.

- Ang Lee Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I always felt like, okay, I'm going to try to tell stories whatever way I can and it would be cool to make a movie, and tell a story that way.

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And is there a movie, whatever the genre here, that I would like to go see If I can see the germ of that there, I'll usually take the job.

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You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people.

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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.

- Joel Coen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares

- Joel Coen Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I draw what I feel, which is no more than doing my job.

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Everywhere among the English-speaking race criminal justice was rude, and punishments were barbarous but the tendency was to do away with special privileges and legal exemptions.

- Albert B. Hart Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

- Lasse Hallstrom Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I love improvising.

- Lasse Hallstrom Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

- Lasse Hallstrom Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

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When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.

- Ang Lee Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

And I maintain good relationships with all the studios so I've never been bullied into any cut, frankly.

- Ridley Scott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

So It's really about characters and sub cultures again. About gypsies and things that I couldn't squeeze in the last one, I stuck in on this one.

- Guy Ritchie 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

Foreseeing the struggle, the French began to construct a chain of forts connecting the St. Lawrence settlements with the Mississippi.

- Albert B. Hart Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

For me it's absolutely necessary to start from the very beginning. I can't think of coming and contributing something anywhere along the line other than the very start.

- George Stevens Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.

- Bill Forsyth Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.

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Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

- Chanakya 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.

- Guy Ritchie Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.

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