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"People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape."
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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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"Nobody makes movies bad on purpose."
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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 make movies I want to see."
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"And with Aaron, I'd have to find a reason not to work with him."
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"I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction."
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"If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff."
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"My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self."
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"I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation."
Woman
"Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even."
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"People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape."
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"First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that."
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"I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road."
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