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Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.
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You never know when you're going to be considered un-hip... The people that really pass judgment on you really have nothing to do with what you do, usually.
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I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.
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A lot of directors don't know what they want to do. Every director I've seen that was a good director that I've admired knew exactly what he wanted to do. They didn't sit there and think about it.
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I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.
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No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.
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I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.
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A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.
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I also thought of myself as the Sonny Barger of the film industry.
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I hardly said a word to my wife until I said 'yes' to divorce.
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I think Francis at half form is better than anybody else by 50%, you know? I think it's just that he has never... he has a late pick of the things that are ambitious enough for him.
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Also, they don't understand - writing is language. The use of language. The language to create image, the language to create drama. It requires a skill of learning how to use language.
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Most of the good executives do pretty well. Because to be a good executive you have to be strong, and you have to have a simple attribute that people have forgotten about - courage.
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'm a general, I do something. I go out and fight wars and win them.
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