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"The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to."

"Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible."
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"You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition."
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"Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films."

"I've been sort of traveling around the country for ten years talking about independent features."

"I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story."

"Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening."

"That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time."

"The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting."

"The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening."

"Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists."
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