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You know, essentially when you do a play you're reinterpreting a work of art that already exists. That's not what happens with a movie.
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I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.
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I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.
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I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality.
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I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.
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I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor.
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I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
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But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.
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When you make a film you usually make a film about an idea.
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By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.
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Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director.
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And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.
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Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.
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