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If one real working screenwriter had visited us in college and just said, 'This is what my day is like,' it would have been really helpful. Robert Ben Garant

Day College Visited Would Had Like Said Real Been Just Screenwriter Us Really Working Helpful

'Balls of Fury' was my first time directing, and that's a movie that I think parts of it are great. Robert Ben Garant

Time Great First Think Fury Directing Parts First Time Balls Movie

You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames. Robert Wise

You People Important Few Think Frames Those Out Tend Footage True Know Because Always Editor How Opposite Coverage Grab Shoot Just Former Much Less Film Actually Start

As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial. Robert Wise

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Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script. Robert Wise

You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked. Robert Wise

I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that. Robert Wise

People Tell Talk Always Proud Been Being Them

I restore vintage Atari XY arcade video game machines. Roger Avary

Game Machines Atari Arcade Restore Video Video Game Vintage

In some ways, I think 'Pulp Fiction' hurt cinema in a very, very minor, small way. It did a massive amount of good. But it also made it impossible to make a movie even remotely like it without someone comparing it to 'Pulp Fiction.' Roger Avary

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I've been playing the Wolfenstein games since I was a kid, and feel that their outlandish sensibility has deeply influenced my own writing and directing throughout my career. Roger Avary

Writing Own Kid Outlandish Directing My Own Throughout Feel Since Been Influenced Sensibility Games Deeply Playing Career

I reveal too much of myself. Roger Avary

Myself Too Much Too Reveal Much

What is interesting to me about Vikings is that they were failed farmers. Roger Avary

Me About Failed Were Interesting Farmers

One of my very favorite television shows growing up was 'The Prisoner.' Roger Avary

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'XIII' is a spy show. I think the comic book is a little too similar to 'The Bourne Identity.' I tried to take it away from that. I believe there was, many years ago, before the Bourne movies, a lawsuit that made it so they couldn't be published in English. Roger Avary

Book Made Before Believe Think Too Tried Similar Lawsuit Take Bourne Identity Comic Comic Book Years Years Ago Spy Little Movies Show English Many Away Published

TV is designed a certain way where you have three, four days on stage and three or four days out. You're basically making a feature every seven days. You have to shoot an hour's worth. Roger Avary

I want to look at the community I came from and what role incarceration has played there. Roger Ross Williams

Community Look Came Role Want Incarceration Played

I think we have to work with Hollywood. We have to work in the system and change it. Roger Ross Williams

Work Change Think System Hollywood

'God Loves Uganda' is a powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to change African culture with values imported from America's Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting 'sexual immorality' and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow Biblical law. Roger Ross Williams

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I escaped my destiny. The odds were that I would end up in prison, but I didn't. Roger Ross Williams

Prison Odds Destiny Would Were End Up Escaped

I'm a recovering journalist, I should say. Roger Ross Williams

Journalist Say Recovering Should

My father was a religious leader in the community, and my sister is a pastor. Roger Ross Williams

Father Leader Sister Community Religious Pastor

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