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"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
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"The Witch film, was one suspensed and good made one, it could be well made with some more victims... But..."
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"Looper is another great film."
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"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."
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"I did put on weight for the last half of the film, but the Ferris wheel scene was shot with a harness on me so that if I fell I wouldn't fall all the way."
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"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."
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"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."
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"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."
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"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
Film
"It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance."
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"I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists."
Psychology
"I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years."
Oil
"I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors."
Being
"I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to."
Age
"I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little."
Success
"I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles."
Boys
"Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone."
People
"I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most."
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