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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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"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."
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"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
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"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
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"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."
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"I guess I'm growing up in the film world."
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"Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie."
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"Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously."
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"I mean, Tarantino is such a SHMUCK 90 percent of the time. But ten percent of the time, I've seen genius shining off the guy."
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"When I'm shooting, really the audience I'm thinking the hardest about is that first test screening audience who I want to like the film and that first opening weekend audience."
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"I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard to really picture the DVD version when I'm in production."
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"The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well."
Movies
"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."
Business
"When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't."
Reading
"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
"I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses."
Actor
"The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do."
Business
"To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally."
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"When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy."
Difficulty
"Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that."
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