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What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience.

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I think I’m a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.

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The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.

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May 2, 2024

The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.

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May 2, 2024

I think I’m a very American director, but I probably should have been making movies somewhere around 1976. I never left the mainstream of American movies; the American mainstream left me.

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