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"You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about."
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"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."
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"I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon."
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"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."
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"It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies."
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"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."
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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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"Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere."
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"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."
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"You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting."
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"I like to think the movies that I've picked have something worthwhile to say. Something relevant."
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"And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today."
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"When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner."
Mother
"After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?"
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"You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about."
Movies
"Beauty is not just physical."
Beauty
"I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else or as smart, or whatever."
Growing up
"It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding."
People
"Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism."
Criticism
"I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that."
Being
"There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog."
Being
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