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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."

"Well, Company of Wolves was about that literally, about fairy tales."

"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."

"I get offered a lot of the same type of thing... The teenage slasher movies."

"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."

"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."

"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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"That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film."

"There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better."

"I never thought of becoming a director. When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me - I still watch silent films."

"I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea."

"Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer."
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