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"I do like directing other people's material."
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"However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years."
"That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time."
"You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites."
"Yeah, I had an idea to make a very scary movie, based on a kind of serial murderer that preys on tourists."
"The real trouble with film school is that the people teaching are so far out of the industry that they don't give the students an idea of what's happening."
"I mean, I don't mind promoting a movie, or talking to the press if it's going to be used in some way."
"But, number one, I think traditional noir doesn't work in contemporary storytelling because we don't live in that world anymore."
"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."
"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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