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Have you ever considered making a small-budget film? -Yusef M. Taylor, Washington I've had a few projects over the years that have fallen by the wayside for various reasons. But frankly, I like big productions. I'm not particularly interested in doing a little film just for the sake of doing a little film...
...your movies so long? -Carolina A. Miranda, Brooklyn [Laughs.] Well, Carolina, I'd like to point out that Avatar is almost half an hour shorter than Titanic, so I'm improving. I've probably had more people ask me why Avatar was so short. (See more about Avatar at Techland.com...
...restaurant on Sunday, and I listened to what she had prepared. "I'd like to thank the Academy for making history tonight. I'm the first woman ..." This would be a good way to start the speech if this were 1976, and she had been elected President of the United States. Then Anna went on to thank the director, the studio and some other people I cared about only slightly more than sound mixers...
Luckily, Anna's delivery was excited and earnest, so I had a lot to work with. Plus, she wanted her speech to be fun: "I'm not going to be like the guys. They're so serious. I actually care. I'm not going to walk up there with a piece of paper like those idiots. And I timed it so it's 45 seconds. I don't want to be embarrassed." I nodded as if I weren't completely ignoring her last sentence...
...feel like if I do this, I can retire at any time I want," she tells me. Six years ago, when she was nominated for both Seabiscuit and The Last Samurai and still lost, she got so frustrated, she decided to run a marathon. "I kept thinking: I'm sick of not being in control, and it's so random. I want to be in control of something," she says. It was then that I realized that someone should have suggested marathon running to George W. Bush after 9/11...