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"I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of."
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"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."

"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."

"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."

"I worked very hard on those movies but there was some creative connection that wasn't being made."

"I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies."
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"I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork."

"Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally."

"They're all based on factual characters. Well, a good amount of them. That's why I was attracted to this genre anyways, because these characters are so large and cartoonish, they're like caricatures, I just felt that there had to be a film made about them."

"Yeah, I'm certainly a lot more confident on this one than I was one the last one, which I think can be a good thing and a bad thing. But, at least I slept while making this film."

"It's not easy to strap yourself down to a desk and bash on a keyboard when you know you can direct lots of films, because directing films is fun and interactive and gregarious. Writing isn't."

"Jake Green isn't just Jake Green. Jake represents all of us. The colour green is the central column of the spectrum and the name Jake has all sorts of numerical values. All things come back to him within the film's world of cons and games."

"We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie."

"What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction."
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