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Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good career choice for anybody. I don't recommend it.

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Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.

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If I start paying attention to the mechanics of a film while watching it, then it's generally a bad film.

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A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.

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The Weinsteins believe in test screenings. I don't. I don't think good films are made that way. Call me crazy, but I'd like to think you need a singular vision to make good art.

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Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well.

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The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads.

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Just to get the actors to relax, listen to each other, and actually affect each other, there are a number of techniques you have to learn, and they don't all work on every actor.

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I gotta tell you, I don't have many close friends, and if I do wind up making friends with somebody, it takes me a long time, usually.

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I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was folding shirts under these fluorescent lights all day at the equivalent of a Kmart. I remember visiting him at work, thinking, 'When I grow up, I've got to do anything else.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: May 18th, 1949

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