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Also, it's tempting, but I'm just not into it--biographies.  I don't
think they make interesting cinema.  They create great performances
from actors, because they're a great character for a person to play,
but usually they're going to follow the lines of a rise and fall or
maybe not that.  But I think there's only a few select persons in this
world that their whole life is interesting enough to make a movie.
Now, it could make a very good book but not a movie. ... If I was ever
to do a movie, I would follow someone for three days--not their whole
life.  Not when they're young, then middle-aged and then in old-age
dotage.  If I was going to make Elvis Presley: The Movie, I'd do it
about the day he went into Sun Records, and that would be it.
		-- Quentin Tarantino, "Father of the Bride"
		   Lam, February 2004

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