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"We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment."
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"I don't know how to drive a car."
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"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."
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"My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car."
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"Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car."
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"You don't have to worry about whether the car is set up right or not, you know it is, and it's down to you. Ultimately, that's what every driver wants."
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"My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash."
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"Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood."
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"A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up."
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"I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems."
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"I like to sing in the car with the windows rolled down and hair blowing all over my face."
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"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age."
Age
"The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere."
Question
"I think when you watch the dailies, the film that you shoot every day, you're very excited by it and very optimistic about how it's going to work."
Work
"We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis."
Rules
"I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?"
Character
"I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it."
Community
"Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across."
Story
"You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people."
People
"These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one."
Work
"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story."
Architecture
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