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Someone once complained to Chaplin that his camera angles weren’t interesting. He said, “They don’t have to be. I’m interesting.”
Sam Goldwyn would say, “I do not always win, but I never lose.”
Ronald Reagan all his life has been told, “Sit there, go over there, move over there, here are your lines, read them off, look to the right, look to the left.” And you’re going to make him the president? No, I’d make his director the president.
PAUL SCHRADER: In Japan, if a man cracks up, he closes the window and kills himself. In America, if a man cracks up, he opens the window to kill somebody else. And that’s what’s happening in Taxi Driver.
