"I hope I inspire children to make films."
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"There's nothing like being on a massive-budget film where you don't know anything, and there's a million people, and no one's communicating."
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"The film [Dream of Life] looks at a time in my life."
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"I always find film-making a pleasurable experience."
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"The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better.""
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"I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street."
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"A film has its own life and takes its own time."
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"If the overall quality of your film depends on what you shot it on, you aren't ready to make a film."
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"I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me."
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"I've always been a fan of 3D, going back to movies in the '50s. I was part of the early '80s 3D craze, which was coming at you in Jaws 3D, so I've always wanted to make a 3D film."
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"Quentin Tarantino faced the same backlash when his films came out until eventually people felt they were actually much smarter."
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"Even the European critics... They said Hostel is the smartest film they'd seen on capitalism and how it's gone too far."
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"On the film where I didn't get along with the director, I just decided to not speak to him."
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"Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous."
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"I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about."
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"For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all."
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"In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process."
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"The theater is a need for me. It's a terrible attraction, something I'm compelled to do. And one derives a form of nourishment from the theater which you can never get from films. Making films weakens you in some way. With the theater, the work itself is a regenerative process."
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"I never retreat from films, as it were, I simply indulge in other interests, that's all."
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"When you film a reality show, it's so jumbled. They shoot episodes in all orders!"
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