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"However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years."
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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."
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"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."
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"You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites."
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"Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists."
"When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit."
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