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"And I discovered after a couple years that I really didn't miss making movies."
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"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."

"I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me."

"When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood."
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"I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock."


"I think that I recall the nostalgic '50s: the start of early television and rock-and-roll, and I think everything seemed to get very generic. Not much has changed."


"I think Alison Krauss and her band are the best today. The same goes for Rick Skaggs and his band."


"When I got to filmmaking, the most democratic of environments where anybody could say anything, those were the best environments, but what you don't want to assume is that you know what the audience is thinking."


"On the last couple of movies I made - big-budget Hollywood movies - I really missed being able to create my own material."


"Well, whether it's on film or on TV, you don't want to throw too many curves at your audio and video guys."


"There will always be another group of kids going to college, drinking beer, and discovering that movie. Many of them have never even heard of SCTV."


"And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really."
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