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"I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't."
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"I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized."
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"Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show."
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"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."
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"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."
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"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it."
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"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies."
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"There's not a lot of good movies being made."
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"In horror movies today it's lots of fast cut shot and lots of loud noises on the soundtrack. I tried to do the opposite. Playing with silence for instance."
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"I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient."
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"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."
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"Same thing, like my commercials are often times really funny because I tend to find 30 seconds is a really good amount of time to tell a joke."
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"Hitchcock had to fight to the death to make his movies."
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"I get very driven by certain themes and ideas."
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"I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade."
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"Coppola has problems getting financing, so why should I not have problems getting financing."
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"I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't."
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"The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance."
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"After living in LA for 8 years, I sort of wanted a change, but there's not much production in New York, which is where I primarily live, so I just sort of drifted over to London."
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"That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings."
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"I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos."
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