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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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"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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"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."
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"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."
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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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"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."
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"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."
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"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."
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"I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor."
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"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."
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"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
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"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
Film
"I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years."
Oil
"I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little."
Success
"Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone."
People
"It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form."
Art
"Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here."
Film
"I want to make a film about a factory worker."
Film
"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."
Politics
"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."
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"Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size."
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