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1174 Filmmaker Quotes

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

Culture Entertainment Fiction Film
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You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.

Course Crash Dancer Just
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You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.
Bit Everyone Feeling Little
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We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.

Accept Bible Either Good
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We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.

Between Got Hereafter In-Between
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The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

Creation Single world Fragment Chaos
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I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".

Make Film Children Good
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Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.

Modern life Shallow Developers Go bankupt
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Life is a winking light in the darkness

Life Winking Darkness
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I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".

Make movies Tell Despair Run away
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Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.

Always believe No matter Nothing Fear
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Do everything by hand, even when using the computer.

Do everything Hand Computer
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We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

We live Cheaper Buy
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I do believe in the power of story. I believe that stories have an important role to play in the formation of human beings, that they can stimulate, amaze and inspire their listeners.

Do believe Power Story Important role
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Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.

Hatred Life Worth living Possible
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The greatness of a mind is determined by the depth of its suffering.

Greatness Mind Determined Suffering
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Our lives are like the wind... or like sounds. We come into being, resonate with each other... Then fade away

Our lives Wind Like sounds Resonate
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Those are shrines. Some people believe spirits live in them.

Shrines People believe Spirit
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Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.

You Have met Forget them
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In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.
World Sparrow Live Fly
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My process is thinking, thinking and thinking - thinking about my stories for a long time.

My process Thinking about Stories Time
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Today, everything has to be made by committee, and has to have special effects, but there's always room for good films.

Always Committee Effects Everything
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To this day, I still think Lonesome Dove is my best part.

Best Best Part Day Dove
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There was nothing wrong with shouting at God.

God Nothing Shouting Wrong
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The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

Author Battle Could David
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The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

Between Catholics Contrast Cultural
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It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.
Big Big Thing Little Little Things
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It's a cyclical thing. When they make one, everyone loves them. Different genres come around in succession. People always welcome the western. It's America's genre.

Always America Around Come
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I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.

Accept Avoid Cannot Crime
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I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.

Develop Ground Like Things
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I always thought of myself as a later bloomer, so I like some of my work more later than earlier.

Always Earlier Later Like
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God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.

Does Fill Ghost God
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Around my own friends, I like to mess around.

Around Friends Like Mess
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Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.

Although Easy John John Wayne
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I love the smell of juice boxes in the morning.

Boxes I Love Juice Love
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Too many people think that economics is this subject that should wait until the university level. But it can't wait that long.

Economics Level Long Many
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Everybody likes to win.

Everybody Likes Win
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When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.

Anything Could Knew Nothing
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I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

Always America Aspect Back
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What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.
Drives I Love Love Me
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Well, I can't live without a woman. I have to have a woman, have to have a wife.

Live Well Wife Without
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I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

Behind Enjoy Hope Left
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I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.

Always Bit Different Grow
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Well, I had a wonderful career.

Career Had Well Wonderful
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If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.

Beginning Grow Heroes In The Beginning
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Art is competitive.

Art Competitive
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There are many talented people who haven't fulfilled their dreams because they over thought it, or they were too cautious, and were unwilling to make the leap of faith.

Because Cautious Dreams Faith
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I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

Earth Finest I Love Love
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The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer.

About Answer Cannot Film
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I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living.

Balances Brooding Civil Civil Servants
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