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30 quotes by Andrew Dominik

Andrew Dominik (born 7 October 1967) is a New Zealand-born Australian film director and screenwriter. He has directed the crime film Chopper, the Western drama film The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and the neo-noir crime film Killing Them Softly.
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There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel who's... →

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When men organize themselves into groups, and they make rules based on common or self-interest, it's always tangled and political.

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In Australia, we point out a person's weaknesses as a way of saying 'I see you and I accept you'. If you do that with Americans, they... →

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Actors have either got to play something that's close to them, or something that's the complete opposite.

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America's moved so much of its production and manufacturing offshore, it's become a nation of middlemen.

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Americans are not renowned for having a sense of irony.

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Anything that's memorable about a movie is often what a test audience will object to because they're being asked to be experts. They just... →

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Films that score very high with test audiences generally tend to not be so great. But, there's a lot of money involved in making movies, and... →

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I'm not a very efficient filmmaker. There's a lot of guys, filmmakers like the Coen Brothers who shoot a whole movie and maybe don't use... →

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To me, regardless of who's in office, the government is strangled by business. And the government's priorities are dictated by business. I... →

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A lot of writing's going down dead ends that don't go anywhere.

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Crime is a job and it's boring. It's also unpleasant.

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Everybody is always trying to make the best movie they can. It's a process.

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