American - Director | November 17, 1942 -
I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.
Martin Scorsese
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I also saw the Dalai Lama a few times.
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Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was.
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Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.
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Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.
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And as I've gotten older, I've had more of a tendency to look for people who live by kindness, tolerance, compassion, a gentler way of looking at things.
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I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.
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The term 'giant' is used too often to describe artists. But in the case of Akira Kurosawa, we have one of the rare instances where the term fits.
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On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer.
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I'd like to do a number of films. Westerns. Genre pieces. Maybe another film about Italian Americans where they're not gangsters, just to prove that not all Italians are gangsters.
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I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.
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All my life, I never really felt comfortable anywhere in New York, except maybe in an apartment somewhere.
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