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"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."
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"What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff."
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"There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives."
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"Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies."
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"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."
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"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."
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"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."
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"I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it."
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"My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time."
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"If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down."
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"My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make."
Movies
"And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do."
Love
"Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it."
People
"I would rather just do the things I want to do."
Want
"As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over."
Film
"Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way."
Film
"People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that."
People
"Big Night and The Impostors are both things that I wrote."
Night
"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."
Film
"As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting."
Acting
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