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"I want to make a film about a factory worker."
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"I didn't watch much TV as a kid and I don' t watch it now. I don' t find anything beautiful or unique to the medium, and the only thing you can do on TV that you can't do in film is make a continuing story - which is so cool!"

"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."

"In this movie they took them up in space. They're floating around and doing zero gravity stuff. Well, they had to do it all on wires. All the wires had to be painted black against this black background. If you didn't light it properly you could see the wires. Drove them crazy!"

"When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it."

"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."
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"I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most."

"I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy."

"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."

"I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little."

"Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone."

"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
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