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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait."

"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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"Yeah I'm telling real stories, but if you pick up a documentary on strippers, you're going to want to see some stripping, so we definitely got that in there."
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"When you're a songwriter and you click with someone, you tend to want to keep writing with that person."

"I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either."
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"It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character."


"Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other."


"I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film."


"There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work."


"Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to casting people against type and trusting that their talent and skill will get them through."


"It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thing better than having a great actor, which is having a great actor who's never done what you're asking him to do. He's hungry to get out of the trailer every day and hungry to test himself."


"You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all."


"I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies."
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