I only watch films in the cinema. I'm old fashioned. I'm a lost cause.
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I have never been to Australia, because the flight terrifies me, but I think I would like to go there one day.
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This black hole that people talk about in my career in the '70s, when I didn't make any films - in retrospect, what I was doing was learning my job.
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I've always found poverty a source of strength.
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I never expected to become a director. It never occurred to me to come to America, to Hollywood. It's all been a wonderful accident. I'm still amazed every time I finish a film.
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I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. It's not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.
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I wouldn't want to make the same film every time. I get easily bored.
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Film schools didn't exist when I was growing up. I learned by working with clever people. Good writers and cinematographers.
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I have to travel for my work, so the idea of getting on planes depresses me. They give me frequent-flyer points, and I think, 'I don't want them, because I'm sick of flying!'