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“When videotape came so a lot of movies that I do have a kind of afterlife in video. Things where movies that I do would come and go they still come and go but you can go rent them and see them on TV. ”
“The thing about HD-DVD that is attractive to Microsoft is that it's very pro-consumer in letting you copy all movies up onto the hard disk.”
“The more sympathy you give, the less you need.”
“If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.”
“If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.”
“If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.”
“You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.”
“You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.”
“Everybody knows when you've got a role in a Spike Lee movie, you're gonna blow up. But I happen to be the only person who's had the lead in the two Spike Lee movies nobody saw.”
“Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.”
“It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.”
“My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.”
“To design something really new and innovative you have to reject reason.”
“You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.”
“Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.”
“You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.”
“You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.”
“You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.”
“This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.”
“When we started out, you could design a chip with a few guys in a basement.”
