"We should never be allowed to forget that it is the customer who, in the end, determines how many people are employed and what sort of wages companies can afford."

-- Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham

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“I've just made a cancer drama, called 'Now Is Good,' directed by Ol Parker and starring Dakota Fanning. We filmed in Brighton and it's about a girl dying of leukemia, although it's not as depressing as it sounds.”
“Writing a film - more precisely, adapting a book into a film - is basically a relentless series of compromises. The skill, the "art," is to make those compromises both artistically valid and essentially your own. . . . It has been said before but is worth reiterating: writing a novel is like swimming in the sea; writing a film is like swimming in the bath.”
“In difficult times, fashion is always outrageous.”
“The story was the important thing and little changes here and there were really part of the story. There were even stories about the different versions of stories and how they imagined the differing versions came to be.”
“The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.”

Source : "On Directing: Interviews with Directors". Book editing by Gabriella Giannachi, Foreword, 1999.
“Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.”
“Even though she's dealing with a scar, Emily just carries on with life. It's not a big deal. While we were shooting the scene, I tried it different ways. I tried it where I was hiding my face, and Chris [Weitz] was like, "Let's try it where she doesn't care," and that's who she is. She doesn't care what anybody else thinks.”
“Humor is the mask of wisdom.”

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