"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."

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"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."

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"I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Film, Critique, Flaws, Talent, Contrast

"How speak about an art which no one recognizes as an art? I know that a great deal has already been written about the "art of the cinema". One can read about it most every day in the newspapers & the magazines. But it is not the art of the cinema which you will find discussed therein--it is rather dire, botched embryo as it now stands revealed before our eyes, the still-birth which was mangled in the womb by the obstetricians of art."

Henry Miller, American Author

Film, Cinema, Art, Failure, Critique

"Looper is another great film."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Film, Truth, Power, Life

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Film, Impression, Media, Truth

"Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it."

Jack Valenti, American Businessman

Film,

"When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad."

Ken Burns, American Director

Film, Style

"And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise."

Dustin Hoffman, American Actor

Film, Now, Reason, Will

"We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed."

Simon Pegg, British Comedian

Film, Right

"You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry."

Kabir Bedi, Indian Actor

Film, Friends

"Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums."

Joe Morton, American Actor

Film, Job, Television, Theater

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"I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to."

Age, Being

"Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times."

Faith, People, Fact

"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."

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"I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles."

Boys, Film, May

"I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little."

Success, People, School

"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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"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."

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"I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy."

"Looper is another great film."

"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."

"Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it."

"When a documentary filmmaker, working in the style that I do, suggests that there has been a shooting ratio of 40 hours to every one hour of finished film, that doesn't mean that the other 39 are bad."

"And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise."

"We don't watch the film anymore because we've seen it so many times, so we'll introduce it, walk out and we'll come back in right about when I wake up in the morning and walk over to the shop and everything's changed."

"You see, I have many friends in the Hindi film industry."

"Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums."

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"I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to."

"Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times."

"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."

"I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles."

"I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years."

"I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films."

"The truth will only be told over a career."

"I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little."

"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."

"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."