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A Lot Of What I'm Obsessed With Is The Relationship And The Dynamics Between People And The Family, Particularly Brothers And Their Father.
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A Lot Of What I'm Obsessed With Is The Relationship And The Dynamics Between People And The Family, Particularly Brothers And Their Father.

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You Don't Make Pictures For Oscars.
Oscars
Oh, The Foghorns... Even The Foghorns, They're All Brass. It's Something By Ingrid Marshal Called Fog Tropes. It's Not A Sound Effect. It's An Actual Piece Of Music. If You Listen To What's Going On After He Has A Flashback About His Wife You'll Hear... It Sounds Like The Humpback Whales In A Way. But It's All Music. And We Use It Again Later, Too.
Fog
Whales
Wife
When I'm Making A Film, I'm The Audience.
Jobs
Play
Film
I Certainly Wasn't Able To Get It When I Was A Kid Growing Up On The Lower East Side; It Was Very Hard At That Time For Me To Balance What I Really Believed Was The Right Way To Live With The Violence I Saw All Around Me - I Saw Too Much Of It Among The People I Knew.
Growing Up
Kids
People
I Can't Really Envision A Time When I'm Not Shooting Something.
Shooting
I Can
If It's A Modern-day Story Dealing With Certain Ethnic Groups, I Think I Could Open Up Certain Scenes For Improvisation, While Staying Within The Structure Of The Script.
Stay Strong
Thinking
Beautiful Day
I Accept All Awards. I Like Them.
Awards
Accepting
I've Seen Many, Many Movies Over The Years, And There Are Only A Few That Suddenly Inspire You So Much That You Want To Continue To Make Films.
Movie
Years
Inspire
For Me, The Key Image Is The Boat Coming Through The Fog At The Beginning. It's Something I Imagined And Liked And I Guess There Are Other References In Other Films I Make - The Similar Type Of Image. But I Think It's Interesting, It's Breaking Through The Mystery, Or Maybe It Stays In The Fog... We Don't Really Know. Where Is He At The Beginning Of The Film, Who Is He?
Thinking
Keys
Fog
I Was Born In 1942, So I Was Mainly Aware Of Howard Hughes' Name On Rko Radio Pictures.
Names
Radio
Born
I'm Obsessed With New York. I Just Find It So Remarkable. You Really Treasure This City When You Go To Different Countries And You See That There Is No Mix. When You Get Back To The City, It's Such An Exciting Place.
Country
New York
Cities
All My Life, I Never Really Felt Comfortable Anywhere In New York, Except Maybe In An Apartment Somewhere.
New York
Apartment
Felt
I'm Very Phobic About Flying, But I'm Also Drawn To It.
Flying
It's Interesting That These Themes Of Crime And Political Corruption Are Always Relevant.
Interesting
Political
Corruption
Violence Is Not The Answer, It Doesn’t Work Any More. We Are At The End Of The Worst Century In Which The Greatest Atrocities In The History Of The World Have Occurred... The Nature Of Human Beings Must Change. We Must Cultivate Love And Compassion.
Compassion
Atrocities
Answers
I Do Know That Some Buddhists Are Able To Attain Peace Of Mind.
Buddhist
Mind
Able
I'm Not A Hollywood Director. I'm An In Spite Of Hollywood Director.
Directors
Hollywood
Spite
I Would Ask: Given The Nature Of Free-market Capitalism - Where The Rule Is To Rise To The Top At All Costs - Is It Possible To Have A Financial Industry Hero? And By The Way, This Is Not A Pop-culture Trend We're Talking About. There Aren't Many Financial Heroes In Literature, Theater Or Cinema.
Hero
Talking
Trends
I Didn't Realize There Are Generations Who Do Not Know About The Origins Of Film.
Generations
Realizing
Film
You've Got To Love Something Enough To Kill It.
Love
Enough
I Look For A Thematic Idea Running Through My Movies And I See That It's The Outsider Struggling For Recognition. I Realize That All My Life I've Been An Outsider, And Above All, Being Lonely But Never Realizing It.
Running
Lonely
Struggle
Eradicating A Religion Of Kindness Is, I Think, A Terrible Thing For The Chinese To Attempt.
Kindness
Thinking
Compassion
When I Was Growing Up, I Don't Remember Being Told That America Was Created So That Everyone Could Get Rich. I Remember Being Told It Was About Opportunity And The Pursuit Of Happiness. Not Happiness Itself, But The Pursuit.
Growing Up
Pursuit Of Happiness
Opportunity
The Most Important Thing Is The Script.
Important
Scripts
Indigenous
Our World Is So Glutted With Useless Information, Images, Useless Images, Sounds, All This Sort Of Thing. It's A Cacophony, It's Like A Madness I Think That's Been Happening In The Past Twenty-five Years. And I Think Anything That Can Help A Person Sit In A Room Alone And Not Worry About It Is Good.
Thinking
Past
Our World
People Want To Classify And Say, 'ok, This Is A Gangster Film.' 'this Is A Western.' 'this Is A... ' You Know? It's Easy To Classify And It Makes People Feel Comfortable, But It Doesn't Matter, It Doesn't Really Matter.
People
Want
Matter
You Gotta Understand, When Moving Images First Started, People Wanted Sound, Color, Big Screen And Depth.
Moving
Color
People
[kubrick] Was Unique In The Sense That With Each New Film He Redefined The Medium And Its Possibilities. But He Was More Than Just A Technical Innovator. Like All Visionaries, He Spoke The Truth. And No Matter How Comfortable We Think We Are With The Truth, It Always Comes As A Profound Shock When We're Forced To Meet It Face-to-face.
Unique
Thinking
Profound
My Father Had This Mythological Sense Of The Old New York, And He Used To Tell Me Stories About These Old Gangs, Particularly The Forty Thieves In The Fourth Ward.
New York
Father
Thieves
I'm Often Asked By Younger Filmmakers, 'why Do I Need To Look At Old Movies?' I've Made A Number Of Pictures In The Last 20 Years And The Response I Have To Give Them Is That I Still Consider Myself A Student. The More Pictures I've Made In 20 Years, The More I Realize I Really Don't Know. And I'm Always Looking For Something Or Someone That I Could Learn From. I Tell The Younger Filmmakers, And The Young Students, That Do It Like Painters Used To Do—that Painters Do—study The Old Masters, Enrich Your Palette, Expand The Canvas. There's Always So Much More To Learn.
Years
Numbers
Giving
In Truly Great Films - The Ones That People Need To Make, The Ones That Start Speaking Through Them, The Ones That Keep Moving Into Territory That Is More And More Unfathomable And Uncomfortable - Nothing's Ever Simple Or Neatly Resolved. You're Left With A Mystery.
Moving
Simple
People
I Don't Like Being In Houses Alone.
House
A Lot Of What I'm Obsessed With Is The Relationship And The Dynamics Between People And The Family, Particularly Brothers And Their Father.
Brother
Father
People
I'd Like To Do A Number Of Films. Westerns. Genre Pieces. Maybe Another Film About Italian Americans Where They're Not Gangsters, Just To Prove That Not All Italians Are Gangsters.
Italian
Numbers
Pieces
The Tone Of The Picture And The Atmosphere Was In My Head And In My Blood In A Way Once I'd Decided To Make The Picture. I Had To Find My Way Through That To Choose, Select, Emphasise Certain Visual Elements And Sound.
Blood
Atmosphere
Sound
If We Just Sit And Exist, And Understand That, I Think It Will Be Helpful In A World That Seems Like A Record That's Going Faster And Faster, We're Spinning Off The Edge Of The Universe.
Thinking
Records
World
When I Was Growing Up In The Mid-'50s, The Roaring Twenties Were A Huge Part Of The Culture. There Were A Number Of Films And A Bunch Of Television Shows That Dealt With The Mythology Of The Underworld From That Period.
Growing Up
Numbers
Twenties
I Was Rather Shaken By All The Green Trees. I Always Am. It Gets Me. I Don't Want To Be Funny About It But I Am. I Loved Seeing All The Westerns, But I Had Asthma And Couldn't Go Anywhere, But I Loved Watching Them In Technicolor And Seeing The Cowboys And The Landscapes Of Monument Valley And You'd See The Forests Of The Anthony Mann Films And Think, 'wow, That's Fantastic', But I Could Never Go There!
Cowboy
Thinking
Tree
Every Year Or So, I Try To Do Something; It Keeps Me Refreshed As To What's Going On In Front Of The Lens, And I Understand What The Actor Is Going Through.
Years
Trying
Lenses
I Think When You're Young And Have That First Burst Of Energy And Make Five Or Six Pictures In A Row That Tell The Stories Of All The Things In Life You Want To Say... Well, Maybe Those Are The Films That Should Have Won Me The Oscar.
Thinking
Should Have
Things In Life
I've Been Extremely Lucky To Work With Elmer Bernstein, Howard Shore Over The Years, But I've Always Imagined Films With My Own Scores, Because I Don't Come From That World Or That Period Of Filmmaking. And So How Could I Make Up My Own Score On A Film Like This Where It Isn't Necessarily Made Up Of Popular Music From The Radio Or The Period; It Isn't Necessarily Classical Music. But What If It's Modern Symphonic Music?
Years
What If
Lucky
I Go Through Periods, Usually When I'm Editing And Shooting, Of Seeing Only Old Films.
Editing
Shooting
Film
I Know That I Come From Mid-20th Century America, Urban, Specifically Downtown New York, Specifically An Italian-american Area, Roman Catholic - That's Who I Am. And A Part Of What I Know Is There's A Decency To People Who Tried To Make A Living In The Kind Of World That Was Around Us And Also The Skid Row Area Of The Bowery; It Impressed Me.
New York
Italian
America
I Love The Look Of Planes And The Idea Of How A Plane Flies. The More I Learn About It The Better I Feel; While I Still May Not Like It, I Have A Sense Of What Is Really Happening.
Ideas
Looks
May
On The One Hand, You're The Same Person, But As You Get Older, You Change Somewhat, And You Never Know How It's Going To Affect Your Work.
Hands
Persons
Know How
If You’re Looking For The Origins Of Film Culture In America, Look No Further Than Amos Vogel.
America
Culture
Looks
I Happen To Like Vampires More Than Zombies.
Zombie
Vampire
Happens
It Is Not The Most Brilliant That Excel In Film, But The Most Patient!
Excellence
Patient
Brilliant
Well, I Think In My Own Work The Subject Matter Usually Deals With Characters I Know, Aspects Of Myself, Friends Of Mine - That Sort Of Thing.
Character
Thinking
Matter
One Of The Things Is That The Good Intentions Of Prohibition, From Reading Over The Years And From Becoming Obsessed With The Research Of Gangs In New York City, Seems To Have Allowed Crime Figures At The Time, Like Luciano, Capone, Torrio And Rothstein, To Organize To Become More Powerful, Which Pulled All The Way Through Until The '70s.
New York
Powerful
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