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Each time I make a movie, it's a little bit like taking another course in something because there's an argument between these people that I don't necessarily have an answer to.

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I don't have a style. I've never thought of myself as a stylist like the visual stylists I admire enormously - Adrian Lyne, Ridley Scott, Alan Parker - in which every shot has a great idea in them.

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It's a terrible mistake when it gets to be a contest of egos. The actor is always going to win. If a director gets into a control situation and is overbearing, it's deadly.

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I try not to get depressed about stuff I can't do anything about.

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Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You didn't get that in the old days, in 'Charley's Aunt' or 'Some Like It Hot.'

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Before I saw 'Tootsie' with an audience, I thought, 'No one is going to believe this could convince anyone he's a woman.'

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I do tend to wake up in the middle of the night convinced I've made a disaster.

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I've always thought of Denys Finch Hatton as a combination of Hubbell Gardner from 'The Way We Were' and Jeremiah Johnson. He is this ultimate individualist.

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I am not a cult director at all. I make Hollywood movies.

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I hate to say it as a pejorative term, but I work for the Hollywood system for the most part.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: July 1st, 1934

Died: May 26th, 2008

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