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"When we do a movie with the studios, they wouldn't be asking us to do it, I don't think, if it was a movie they wanted to get into themselves. What you see is what you get with us, so they let us do what we want to do."
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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."
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Personal Development
"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
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"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."
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"If you want to be happy, be."
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"I guess I can go anywhere I want. If only I knew where to go."
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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them."
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"And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know."
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"I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box."
Box
"I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people."
Work
"You're doing it to make the character as specific as possible, so that it's a specific individual that you're talking about, not that whole class of people."
People
"I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?"
Character
"We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis."
Rules
"I guess it beats throwing trash for a living."
Living
"The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first."
People
"And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before."
Home
"You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd."
Love
"Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across."
Story
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