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Maybe that's about all
we need to say about that subject.

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This was the first film
I directed that I didn't write.

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I had just figured out how to direct,
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the first two films -
Blue Collar and Hardcore -

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I was just trying to survive.
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By the time I did Gigolo I got a notion of
what it meant to think visually.

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And a lot of that was being
influenced by Mr Scarfiotti

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and I sort of went to school
at his visual school.

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I like this shot here, you start inside,
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back, and dolly down the street -
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look at these big oysters
Nando put in there -

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there's a jump cut there
as we pass the dark

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and then we come back in.
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I guess that really speaks to
the point which I'm making,

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which is that I saw this as
a real chance to think visually.

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Because I hadn't written it
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and wasn't supposedly invested
in the story or the theme

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and because it was a genre film,
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I could just see it as
colour, shape and design.

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The great influence on me
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and a number of directors
at this time was Bertolucci.

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And, of his films, it was Conformist,
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in this film there are shots
stolen from that film,

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I went through a period
where almost every film I made

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had shots from Conformist -
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shots in Gigolo, in this film, in Mishima.

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