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"It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well."
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"Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about."
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"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."
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"It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable."
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"If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line."
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"I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing."
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"When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film."
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"You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars."
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"We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!"
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"I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it."
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"I've never made a film using dialogue or speech."
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"And I liked that whole idea that energy comes from not disseminating your ideas and talking about them."
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"It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well."
Film
"Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist."
Age
"Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home."
Home
"In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about."
Life
"Time puts things in proper perspective."
Time
"People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while."
Music
"Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies."
Movies
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