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if you give them the licence to do so.
1:13:20
I think in many ways the secret of
designing a set is what you don't do.
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Most of what people think of
as production design
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is really just interior decoration,
1:13:39
which is just hanging stuff on walls,
junking rooms up.
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It takes more courage to take a picture
off the wall than put one on
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and that's what
the good designers know.
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Here's one of the unfortunate things
about the pre-digital era.
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No matter how well
you did it at that time,
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it still, you know, looks like
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an appliance,
an artificial hand that is busting open.
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Today, digitally, you can take a real hand
and make that actually happen
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and it would be much more realistic.
1:14:43
Even though Cat People
started out as a horror film,
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it ended up becoming more and more
of a kind of perverse erotic love story.
1:14:55
And the horror elements remained
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but I think the reason why it wasn't
as commercially successful in the US