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My dad took me to my first movie. It was 'The Greatest Show on Earth' in 1952, a movie of such scale it was actually a traumatic experience.
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In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.
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Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.
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I missed my dad a lot growing up, even though we were together as a family. My dad was really a workaholic. And he was always working.
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Television has a different biorhythm than movies. I love the biorhythm of TV.
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I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.
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From a very young age, my parents taught me the most important lesson of my whole life: They taught me how to listen. They taught me how to listen to everybody before I made up my own mind. When you listen, you learn. You absorb like a sponge - and your life becomes so much better than when you are just trying to be listened to all the time.
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Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.
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It is important to know who your friends are and to stay, remain loyal to your friends, despite what you hear, despite the mistakes that are made in friendships and misunderstandings that commonly occur, to be able to forgive and to move on, you have to be able to remember the values of friendship.
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I am a very impatient director.
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I've got a lot of examples about moments where I thought something would work on film and it didn't work, but I never came to that decision with the film half shot, where I was stuck on a runaway train and couldn't jump off. On those occasions where I have admitted defeat, that this is not going to work, I haven't embarked on that project and made that movie.
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Oh, torture. Torture. My pubic hairs went gray.
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Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story.
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Not every movie, in my opinion, should be in 3D. There are a lot of stories I wouldn't shoot in 3D. But, you know, there are movies that are perfect in 3D.
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The only time I'm totally happy is when I'm watching films or making them.
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When I grow up, I still want to be a director.
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I dream for a living. Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make.
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When I don't have a movie, I don't take a job just for the sake of working. I just sit it out until I find something I'm passionate about.
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I usually do about five cuts as a director. I haven't ever directed a film where I haven't made five passes through the movie, and that takes a long time.
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I love my kids as individuals, not as a herd, and I do have a herd of children: I have seven kids.
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One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.
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The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.
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My first reaction every time I delve into an episode of history that I don't know very much about is... my first reaction is anger that my teachers never taught me about it.
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I think 80 percent of the population are really great, caring people who will help you and tell you the truth. That's just the way it is. And I think 20 percent of the population are crooks and liars. It's just a fact.
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