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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.


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Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.

Listen, you make a big movie, you're going into the Coliseum, and people are going to give you the thumbs up or the thumbs down. And that's part of the game. It's part of the fun as well.



When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.

When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.



Confidence is essential, but ego is not.

Confidence is essential, but ego is not.



You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.

You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes, rather than sit back and be bombarded with images.



Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.

Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through.



Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.

Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.



I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.

I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.



You think about taking audiences on a journey.

You think about taking audiences on a journey.



You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.

You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.



This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.





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For the unlearned old age is winter for the learned it is the season of the harvest.

For the unlearned old age is winter for the learned it is the season of the harvest.



What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.

What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.



You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat.

You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the white meat instead of the dark meat.



My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.

My writing arises out of erotic impulse toward an other: it is an act of love. And I want terribly to be loved in return, as a sign that I have loved well enough.



This I believe: I believe there is no God.

This I believe: I believe there is no God.



George W. Bush did not go on television to trash [Donald] Trump.

George W. Bush did not go on television to trash [Donald] Trump.



In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.



This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.

This is what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination.




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