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My grandparents, they came through Ellis Island in 1923, and you know, I'd heard all the stories.

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The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.

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It's hard to run away from who you are, and when your taste is formed is a very important thing.

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I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.

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William Atherton has a very different acting style to Bonnie Bedelia; she has a very different style than Bruce Willis.

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The first movie, I was 23; I thought I knew everything, but my ego soon took an irrevocable blow.

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Most people don't watch a movie four or five times; they watch it once.

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What I do have to get across is the truth of the moment within the given scene. It's my job, as a director and screenwriter, to create the environment in which all those moments will come together eventually.

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The actor always must be in the scene, not above the scene. To communicate any larger ideas is my problem; it's how the narrative is constructed and directed that hopefully does it.

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Really, what I'm doing is an attempt to continue the best work of the people I adore: Francis Coppola and Scorsese and Robert Altman and Stanley Kubrick and those amazing directors whose work I grew up with and loved.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: Unknown

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