"Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true."

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"Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true."

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"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."

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"I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies."

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"Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor."

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"I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago."

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"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

"I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon."

"Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen."

"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."

"It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies."

"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."

"Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies."

"Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere."

"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."

"You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting."

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"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."

"I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies."

"I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort."

"Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor."

"I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago."