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You can't have the real thing on camera - that's the nature of cinema. When you see people like Daniel Day-Lewis and Ralph Fiennes screaming and hyperventilating, you're seeing the phoniest kind of bad acting. You may as well have a 'men at work' sign. It's not acting if you can see it.

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If a person is in front of a camera, they're acting. It's not possible to live in front of a camera.

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It's not a secret, but if you know what the hell you're doing, you pick good actors. And you know what makes a good actor? A good personality in the performer, in the person.

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Every movie I've ever made says the same thing. They all find comedy in people trying to live their lives without any rules.

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Actors should be instinctive and spontaneous. If you think about acting, you're not going to be good.

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A good conservative is someone with an open mind.

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You don't put your personal viewpoints in a good movie. A movie should only be concerned with characters, not some big moral, although it's always underneath.

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I think it's absurd to believe that movies should look like paintings and say something like serious books say something.

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Rome has New York's formlessness, aimlessness, a kind of hard-boiled sophistication, blase about everything. In their filmmaking, too, the Italians have this tongue-in-cheek sense of comedy.

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I was brought up with TV comedians. I'll remember them till I go to my grave, all those comedians, as decadent fluff.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 23rd, 1938

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