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"When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead."
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"I'm not interesting enough on my own that you'd want to see a film about me."
"When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda. If I wanted to do that, I'd make documentaries."
"Look, I'm just a storyteller. When I make a film, I never want the film to become a vehicle of social propaganda."
"Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made."
"It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were."
"I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend."
"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."
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"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction."
"I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong."
"I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses."
"But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses."
"It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn't."
"Traffic is about drugs. As detailed a portrait as I can muster about what is happening in the drug world, from top to bottom, from policy to how things move on the street."
"When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy."
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