Every story needs an element of suspense - or it's lousy.
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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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There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic.
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The marketing of anything is full of exploitation and lies and hype.
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American movies are the most popular movies everywhere, and it is true that the quality is far from uniformly terrific.
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When you're shooting a feature that costs $200,000 a day with a crew of 250, you don't want accidents; you want to know exactly what's going to happen. But with a documentary, you don't, so you have to be sensitive to accidents because that is where the gold is.
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Even in 'Victor/Victoria,' there was talk about what it means to be a woman, what it means to be a man. You didn't get that in the old days, in 'Charley's Aunt' or 'Some Like It Hot.'
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Audiences want to feel something intense, quickly, without wasting a lot of time.
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I fly an aeroplane, and I think a lot about how much I do not want ever to run into an optimistic air traffic controller. I just don't. I want a guy down there who's just waiting for the worst crash possible and petrified that it's going to happen on his watch. And then I feel safe flying into his territory.