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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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"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."
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"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."
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"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that."
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked."
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"Looper is another great film."
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"I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it."
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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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"Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done."
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"The director is the only person who knows what the film is about."
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"I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little."
Success
"It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance."
Luck
"I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors."
Being
"The truth will only be told over a career."
Truth
"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
Film
"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
Film
"I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy."
Politics
"Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich."
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"I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years."
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"Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times."
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