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"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing."
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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."

"Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales."

"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."

"I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies."

"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."

"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."

"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 am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry."

"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."

"Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature."

"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."

"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time."

"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones."

"I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful."
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