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I'm very troubled when editors oblige their film critics to read the novel before they see the film. Reading the book right before you see the film will almost certainly ruin the film for you.

~Whit Stillman

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I thought I was going to make bigger films for mass audiences. And I wanted that. I actually had in mind a James-Bondian thriller.

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I find it preferable not to have public opinions about anything. It's good for me to shut up.

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I'm very concerned about the countries bordering Russia. But let's stay off that stuff.

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I like things that are sort of comic and humorous rather than satirical.

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I really like the short stories that Melissa Bank writes. I think she's sort of channeling the female version of J.D. Salinger in more recent days.

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So much of artistic creation is just exclusion. It's not creating things; it's just excluding things that really aren't going to be helpful.

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I've learned that I really want to shoot short films on a short schedule. There can be very good films that run 110 minutes, but 90 minutes is beautiful.

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What frustrates me a lot about some aspects of filmmaking is people thinking everyone is really dumb and that we have to make everything really obvious.

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I remember going to one party of this preppy, bourgeois crowd, and there was some obnoxious character there, really bad news, and saying, 'Oh my God, so the caricature you always see in films actually exists.'

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: January 25th, 1952

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