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"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
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"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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"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV."
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"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
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"I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest."
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"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
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"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."
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"A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin."
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"I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue."
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"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."
Film
"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
Film
"The truth will only be told over a career."
Truth
"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
Film
"I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films."
Trouble
"It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance."
Luck
"I want to make a film about a factory worker."
Film
"I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little."
Success
"I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists."
Psychology
"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."
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