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I can see that I give my audience something. I can see it in their eyes, and they say 'Thank you' a lot. You realize you are doing something that means something to people.

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I had a musician friend once tell me that it's not in the orchestra that you get the true test of the musicians but in the little trios and quintets where you really get to see if they've got the stuff. And the composer.

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I'm the kind of director, at any given moment, an idea occurs to me, I'll just do it.

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A businessman can be as military as any politician.

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I went to a Christian college. You would be expelled if you were caught in a movie theater. It was ridiculous.

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My goal is to die in my 90s on the set, say, 'That's a wrap,' after the last shot, fall over dead, and have the grips go out and raise a beer to me.

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You want to give the person as much freedom as you can within the boundaries of being a responsible producer with a contract to a studio. It's about giving as much freedom as you can, and the more the filmmaker proves he or she is on the track that you feel good about, then you just kind of watch dailies.

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My whole background was in voracious book-reading.

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My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics. I came from a very strict background.

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I don't know, I always had an active dream life, and there's something so profound and wonderful about a movie. It's so alive. It's so shared. The thing of sitting in an audience and going into a dream-like state with several hundred other people that are sharing exactly what you're feeling is a profound event.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: August 2nd, 1939

Died: August 30th, 2015

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