For a film, when you condense, you don't want to keep going back to the same setting over and over.
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As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can't.
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I hope I haven't grown up. The cliche for all artists is that you don't want to lose that child inside. I think when you get sedentary and set in your ways, you can lose a lot of that spontaneity and creativity. I hope I'm holding on to that.
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You don't pay the same price for a Ferrari as you do for a Honda Accord. But for some reason, for movie tickets, you're asked to pay the same price for 'Avatar' as you are for some $2 million movie, which is kind of a weird thing when you think about it.
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As a director, you've got to have quite a few projects going because you never know which one will actually come together with the financing and get the green light.
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When I talk to film students, I always say, 'Buy the DVDs and listen to the commentaries, look at the making of, look at the behind-the-scenes,' because that's such a great learning tool.
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