"I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97."

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"I pulled out of making movies in about '96 or '97."

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"On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material."

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"My own personal taste in films as a member of the audience was not completely in line with films I was doing."

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"And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies."

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"And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really."

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"I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock."

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"When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking."

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"Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys."

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"Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped."

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"A few years ago, I decided I wanted to be home with my family."

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"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay."

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"All my movies are difficult to classify because they are very eclectic in mixing genres."

Pedro Almodovar, Spanish Director

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"It's a pity that I can never really enjoy my movies because, after the mixing, your capacity as a spectator just disappears. I have to think about what I felt just before the mixing."

Pedro Almodovar, Spanish Director

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"In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance."

Alejandro Amenabar, Spanish Director

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"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

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"When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

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"When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

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"I think it is a mistake to identify a movie according to its language, as if movies were literature."

Jean-Jacques Annaud, French Director

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"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."

Michael Apted, British Director

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"Even in the former Soviet Union, they have good copies of my movies."

Dario Argento, Italian Director

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