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It's my job to motivate the audience to believe. I have to get them to suspend their judgment in favor of involvement.

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The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype.

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When I work, I think mainly in terms of dramatic choices.

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If I'm lucky, in my wildest dreams I can make a picture every three years.

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At every premiere, I stand in the back, I never sit, worrying. And then maybe I hear them laugh or whatever, and the muscles unclench a little. But always, I feel like it's a fluke, that I'll never be able to do it again.

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I think a lot of creative people are uncomfortable with therapy. Because you're basically trying to 'solve' the unconscious. And the unconscious is where it all comes from.

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When you're shooting a feature that costs $200,000 a day with a crew of 250, you don't want accidents; you want to know exactly what's going to happen. But with a documentary, you don't, so you have to be sensitive to accidents because that is where the gold is.

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There's no money in documentaries.

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Like a lot of New Yorkers, I assumed that I knew all about the U.N. I was shocked to find out it's not like anything I had in mind. There are only six languages accepted there. It's considered international territory.

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In terms of level of difficulty, it would go comedy, thriller, and then romantic drama.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: July 1st, 1934

Died: May 26th, 2008

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