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"I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires."
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"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone."

"Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."

"People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world."

"Now I don't know half of the young people in the industry. It's too spread out, too diffuse."

"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way."


"All these directors, and I would include the Coen brothers and Quentin, have a very unique vision of what they want. They listen to ideas and make people feel like everyone is making the film."


"Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece."


"In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene."


"I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing."


"My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig."


"Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me."


"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."


"I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York."
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