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I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries. Frank Capra

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If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart. George A. Romero

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Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't. George Lucas

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Football games are on TV, and it doesn't affect stadium attendance at all. It's the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater. George Lucas

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Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer. George Lucas

Good Think Write Writer Good Writer Although Very Screenplays

A director makes 100 decisions an hour. Students ask me how you know how to make the right decision, and I say to them, 'If you don't know how to make the right decision, you're not a director.' George Lucas

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Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection. Guillermo del Toro

Monsters Imperfection Saints Patron

Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don't have any human or mammalian instincts. They'll eat their young at the drop of a hat; they can eat your house! There's no empathy - none. Guillermo del Toro

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I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. Guillermo del Toro

Ambition Exceed Feel Budget Always Should Your

I don't try to sanction other people's joy in monsters. I mean, I think the fact is, humor, fantasy - you know, like fear, desire or laughter - create genres of their own: comedy, melodrama, or erotic films or horror films... The boundaries cannot be defined. It's to each his own. Guillermo del Toro

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I don't think American independent films have ever really been particularly experimental, except for the original guys from the '60s who were huge influences, like Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, and Stan van der Beek. They were the true independents. Gus Van Sant

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Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up. Gus Van Sant

Sometimes Changing Everything Up Hard Keep Fast

We get strength and encouragement from watching children. Hayao Miyazaki

Strength Encouragement Get Children Watching

Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy horse or car or whatever it is. Stop-motion is the only medium where we literally can make a toy come to life, an actual object. Henry Selick

I was complexed and awkward that I was good for nothing and was always lying. I would lie to my school friends that I was a stud in my colony and to my colony friends that I was a stud in the school cricket and football teams, though I was in no team. Imtiaz Ali

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My pictures are always part of my thinking, and my emotions, tensions, dreams, desires. Ingmar Bergman

Dreams Emotions Thinking Part Tensions Pictures Always Desires

If I don't create, I don't exist. Ingmar Bergman

Exist Create

I hope I never get so old I get religious. Ingmar Bergman

Hope Religion Old Religious Never Get

I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole. Ingmar Bergman

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The only thing I consider appalling would be to suddenly become a vegetable and a burden on other people. A soul slowly dying out, trapped in a body in which the insides gradually sabotage me - that, I think, would be terrifying. Ingmar Bergman

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The only limits are, as always, those of vision. James Broughton

Vision Those Only Always Limits

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