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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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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"I did a film about the Zodiac Killer. It turned out well."
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"Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller."
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"I'm so critical of myself. I'm actually really, really proud of the film. It's really cool to see a movie at Sundance because everybody is so supportive."
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"So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally."
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello."
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"I did manage to secure a feature film for 2005, though, which I'm really chuffed about."
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"Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film."
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"You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked."
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"I guess why the Ocean's films are hard for me is because on the one hand you have to make sure the performances are there, but on the other hand it's a film that demands, to my mind, a very layered and complex visual scheme. That takes a lot of time to figure out."
Time
"Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will."
Movies
"When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead."
Film
"Making a film that's supposed to be fun to watch is really hard - that's the weird irony of it."
Film
"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."
Policy
"The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well."
Movies
"Reality shows are all the rage on TV at the moment, but that's not reality, it's just another aesthetic form of fiction."
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."
Government
"To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally."
Job
"I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun."
Performance
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