When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again and again and again. Eventually, the joke starts to not be funny. So you have to be careful that you're not throwing the baby out with the bath water.
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People say I pay too much attention to the look of a movie but for God's sake, I'm not producing a Radio 4 Play for Today, I'm making a movie that people are going to look at.
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I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.
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I had been very impressed with the voiceover of 'Apocalypse Now,' with Martin Sheen's voice. That was a great voiceover; it really internalized the Martin Sheen character, who was essentially fairly low key and didn't say a lot during the whole movie. But he thought a lot, so I always thought that was really great.
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MPC, Moving Picture Company, they're really excellent, they did the majority of the effects.
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Try writing a book, dude. That's difficult.
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I started late. I didn't make my first movie until I was 40.
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I unfortunately do suffer for my art.
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Egypt was - as it is now - a confluence of cultures, as a result of being a crossroads geographically between Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
