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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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"I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites."
Movies
"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."
Acting
"I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon."
Movies
"Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies."
Movies
"We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman."
Creativity
"Reading a novel of a private experience, very, very different, the nature of it is very different."
Nature
"I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don't want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life."
Home
"I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality."
People
"But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood."
Diversity
"I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people."
People
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