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"I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it."
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"I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime."

"High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless."

"Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it."

"It is not what I do, it is the way I do it, that will get me in the end."
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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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