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It's funny: the reason I did 'Beautiful Creatures' was the same reason I did everything else - even though it was a genre film and existed at a more studio level, the script and the characters were so well written. Alden Ehrenreich

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I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa, which spoiled the hell out of me. Alden Ehrenreich

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My parents weren't involved in show business, but my parents would show me. We'd watch old films in the house. Little film festivals of Westerns and stuff like that when I was a kid. I knew I wanted to be those guys in those movies before I knew what being an actor was. Alden Ehrenreich

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It's appealing to me to get to be in a commercial film without feeling like I sold out. Alden Ehrenreich

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To make a film is easy; to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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Nowadays, a critic has to watch 700, 800 films a year, and I know through experience, being a juror in prestigious film festivals where supposedly the best films are arriving, from twenty films maybe you see two that are good, one that is so-so, and one that is extraordinary. And the other sixteen are terrible. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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Ultimately, with every film I'd done before, there was a reference. They have their own uniqueness, but there was always a precedent. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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The problem with the screenplay is that it's not literature, and it's not a film. It's a very weird, technical kind of blueprint that will be absolutely transformed into something else that is not that, you know? Honestly, a screenplay is no literature. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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I'm always surprised when some director says, 'When I saw this film, that changed my life.' I don't have that. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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I'm telling the same story in every film. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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I had a big problem working with stars, because they are too expensive and have too many demands. Their names help you raise the money to make the movie, but then they demand close-ups. They change things. You end up doing things at their service instead of servicing the film. Alejandro Jodorowsky

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For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing. Aleksey Igudesman

We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage. Aleksey Igudesman

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I've often gone to start a film only to find the producers surprised to discover that I'm American. Alessandro Nivola

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I'd love to make another film in Mexico. Alex Cox

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I didn't go to film school. Alex Garland

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I know some directors get very involved in trailers and posters. Some even cut their own. I stay completely away from it. I just see my job as making a film. Alex Garland

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In the case of 'Zero Dark Thirty,' about the hunt for Osama bin Laden, an issue that is central to the film - torture - is so important that I feel I must say something. Mark Boal and Kathryn Bigelow have been irresponsible and inaccurate in the way they have treated this issue in their film. Alex Gibney

Every film is faced with the enemy of time. Only so much story can fit into the 90-150 minutes of time that moviegoers are willing to stay in their seats. Naturally, compression is necessary. So are the exclusion and amalgamation of characters so that the viewer does not become bewildered. Alex Gibney

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