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Film is a collective experience, as you know.

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You are not an active creator of the film.

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Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.

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I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

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I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.

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But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

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When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.

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We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

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I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites.

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I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: July 1st, 1934

Died: May 26th, 2008

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