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The difference between an experienced director and a new director is not as big as the difference between individual directors, the temperament they have, and the things they're interested in.
The distribution systems and the cinemas have adopted to the blockbusters, and they now get their main income from selling popcorn, and if you don't make a film that sells popcorn, it's very hard to get it out there.
The ethical code of my upbringing was be good to people and try not to hurt them. You don't need a god to tell you that.
The first time I did a big American film, I was surprised by all the different financiers who came to the set and told the director what to do.
The first time I saw Istvan Szabo's 'Mephisto,' I came out and I was in shock. I was shaking.
The only respect you should have is the one you earn.
The Sermon on the Mount is a very nice piece about being good, but most of the Bible is a very revengeful, childish, brutal God.
The way I look at humanity, I don't think there's good guys or bad guys. We're all potentially bad and potentially good.
There was a Russian director named Elem Klimov, who did his films during the communist days. They were constantly struggling with the authorities and to be allowed to express themselves. But he did one of the best war movies I've ever seen - it's called 'Come and See.'
There will always be storytelling, whether it's on the big silver screen, or it's your television or your iPhone or whatever, people will keep on telling stories.
There's so many films made out of bad books, and I don't have time for those.
Very often, it's the director that I'm attracted to. If it's a really good director, I don't even have to read the script to say yes.
We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world.
We were working under very harsh conditions on 'Zero Kelvin.' We were up there in the Arctic, closer to the North Pole than to a hospital. Sometimes you had to sleep in small Arctic tents with guns to protect yourself from polar bears and stuff.
When I had kids, I became a better actor. I just stole from them.
When Lars Von Trier calls me, I say yes without reading the script because often the script hasn't been written yet, and if Fincher called me again, I'd say yes without reading the script, too.
When we did 'Breaking the Waves,' he had a sign on the wall that said, 'Make mistakes.'
When you have kids, you see what's important.
When you work in Norway, you actually have to have a contract about lunches because Norwegians don't eat lunch normally, so they just throw out a loaf of bread and some coldcuts.
When you work with someone you don't quite know, you have to figure the director out, and you can come up with ideas that are counter-productive.
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Al Lopez
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