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"Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch."
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"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."
"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."
"Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project."
"The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening."
"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it."
"I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market."
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"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game."
"I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me."
"I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director."
"I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie."
"It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese."
"I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand."
"You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie."
"I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price."
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