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"I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good."
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"I make movies I want to see."
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"The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies."
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"Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales."
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"We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama."
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"I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies."
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"Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies."
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"Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films."
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"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."
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"I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad."
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"Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old."
Movies

"The army teaches boys to think like men."
Men

"I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned."
Trying

"Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning."
Man

"It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can."
Nature

"The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army."
Movies

"More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me."
Home

"Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'"
Music

"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away."
Time

"I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line."
Training
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