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I felt, if I'm going to take ...

I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.

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Sitting in an automobile was ...

Sitting in an automobile was where I first remember understanding how drama works ... Hidden in the back seat of a sedan, I quickly realized how deep the chasm or intense the claustrophobia could be inside your average family car.

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There were certain things tha...

There were certain things that I watched, and I screened a series of period films as well, not because I wanted to copy those, because I wanted to be different. “Far from the Madding Crowd” was one I looked to because I thought it looked so good. “Doctor Zhivago.” Unrequited love is always a great thing. “Tess” was something I looked at, I thought Polanski got the period right.

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I was very careful to cast gu...

I was very careful to cast guys who were very good-looking and very fit and who had a certain sense of privilege about them, because with that sense of privilege comes contempt.

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But even with a character lik...

But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's in a place where I wouldn't have expected him to be - taking on the responsibility of a woman who is pregnant and who used to be his best friend's wife.

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I didn't choose BYU, I like t...

I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me.

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Just in the past few years - ...

Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.

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My business is can I create a...

My business is can I create a world that's possible and could happen? I think that's the only thing that I have to do, and I think that I have done that each time.

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I'm more than open to hope, b...

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

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I make movies I want to see....

I make movies I want to see.

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It's funny how that comes up, ...

It's funny how that comes up, because sometimes I'll write something and I'll think, I don't know if that's a film or a play, and then other things I feel very strongly about them just being plays - they feel very theatrical to me.

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Unrequited love is always a gr...

Unrequited love is always a great thing.

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In a relationship you have to ...

In a relationship you have to open yourself up.

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With In the Company of Men, th...

With In the Company of Men, the misogynist label stuck early and firmly. In the end, it probably did hurt the film a bit, because getting women into the theaters was difficult.

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My business is can I create a ...

My business is can I create a world that's possible and could happen? I think that's the only thing that I have to do, and I think that I have done that each time.

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I have a healthy view of what ...

I have a healthy view of what one can do with art.

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The future is now. It's time t...

The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.

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But for me, it feels like a na...

But for me, it feels like a natural extension of what I've been doing: exploring relationships. Here you have two relationships and we can explore how difficult it is for people to be together.

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My best male friend is my best...

My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self.

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I see bits and pieces of me in...

I see bits and pieces of me in all the characters in my films.

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....