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can make things happen for you, and
we’re still close. It was like a light that
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from them and from Robert and from
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steal things that I learned from those sets,
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Especially in the editing room, I used
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helped me for the rest of my career behind
the camera.

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around this time on two very
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I did Hotel and Timecode. I learnt so much
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be your own editor, your own director,
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And you also played a role in
Kevin Smith’s controversial religious
comedy Dogma...
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It put me on the spot. It wasn’t an easy
decision to make. I don’t share all the
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wonderful piece of work.

All this, while you were planning Frida,
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took seven years of work, so what gave
you the impetus to keep on pitching
to people?
Because I knew they were wrong and I was
right! I knew this was a wonderful story,
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took a lot of stubbornness, you know?
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her they were horrible, her paintings, and
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many years later, her art is appreciated.
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weeks [of production].

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little bit smaller, her nose a bit wider. Her
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a picture you’d scream.

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