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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."
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"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"
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"What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?"
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"I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter."
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"I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film."
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"And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used."
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"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."
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"I'd rather do movies 'cause I am better at movies, but I do shows 'cause the opportunities have come forward."
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"What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff."
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"At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back."
Hunger
"These wrestlers aren't organized. They have no union, no pension and no insurance. You meet wrestler after wrestler who sold out Madison Square Garden ten years ago, basically running on fumes today. There's a lot of drama there."
Wrestlers
"I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you're following your passion."
Life
"I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that."
Art
"I only want to work with actors that really get it and make it work. I didn't want it to be a star-driven thing anymore."
Work
"As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch it."
Mind
"Right after I did 'The Fountain,' I wanted to go make a documentary or something that was less constructed - more natural. I was searching for a project, and sniffing around, 'The Wrestler' fit right in."
Film
"When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world."
Movies
"I'm Godless. I've had to make my God, and my God is narrative filmmaking."
God
"Now there is so much expertise and brainpower it's hard to be at the cutting edge of what's cool and not do something that's totally geeky."
Technology
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