"I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself."

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"I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself."

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"Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about."

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"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."

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"It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable."

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"I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing."

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"We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!"

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"I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it."

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"I've never made a film using dialogue or speech."

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"I'm a film doll. But I'm enjoying it. So I'm gonna keep doing it."

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"I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell."

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