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"My first film goes into production in October. It's called White Boy Shuffle and it's based on a novel about a young black kid and it's sort of reminiscent of Catcher in the Rye."
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"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."

"Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man."

"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."

"No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head."
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"There was a time - before I made movies - when I was more forgiving, but now that I've learned as much as I have, I want to do movies that I want to see, that have their own unique flavor."


"I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues."


"I want to make movies that people talk about when they leave the theater, that aren't clear-cut, but effective and fulfilling in some sense."


"I really respond to diversity, a broader landscape, with actors of different ages and races and backgrounds."


"A film goes through so many hands, that by the time it's done, it might not resemble what you thought you were making."
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