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"Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller."
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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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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"Looper is another great film."
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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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"When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director."
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"I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film."
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"I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself."
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"There's no point in making a film out of a great book. The book's already great. What's the point?"
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"I wouldn't mind taking a rest for three or four months, but I have to keep on making films for the sake of my crew, who just wait for the next film because they're not on a fixed salary."
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"A film like Genevieve to my contemporaries is not a film made years ago, but last week or last year. They see me as I was then, not as I am now."
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"But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in."
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"I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid."
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"My life will change, because I want it to change; and also because this is something I'm committed to doing and that I believe my life has been leading towards."
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"Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?"
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"Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higer the fences get."
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"Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios."
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"I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me."
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"It's a great thriller or mystery, but on another level it's a film about the fact that, if you only look at a person through one lens, or only believe what you're told, you can often miss the truth that is staring you in the face."
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"And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private."
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"I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason."
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