"I'm developing a record company. I'm learning how to supervise music on a film."
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"Outside of my film work, my advocacy and activism is centered around inter-connection and inter-dependence."
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"A really good horror film has a story."
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"Film people are coming into TV, because they can't get any work."
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"I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment."
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"Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning."
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"I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies."
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"[Russel Crowe] has been through a lot and had a lot of success. No one knew who he was when I worked with him 12 years ago. He's just come off a great film in Australia- Romper Stomper - and so it was good to see him again. Obviously, I'd seen him since."
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"The beauty of being an actor in a horror film is that you know what to expect and what's coming."
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"I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always."
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"You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage."
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"[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that."
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"I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining."
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"For me, once the film is out, it belongs to the audience, and I have to be open to any reaction that comes from it."
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"Not everyone who wants to make a film is crazy, but almost everyone who is crazy wants to make a film."
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"That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally."
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"We were dealing with films that had very prominent roles for women and I felt I was actually contributing something. Many people had wondered why I would want to do a film where the best part was a woman's part. But I wasn't afraid to be the lesser intelligence in a film."
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"You have to go with your instincts. I remember when I was about to make "Fistful of Dollars" a big article came out that said, "Italian Westerns are finished." I said, "Swell." Then, of course, the film came out, and it did something. I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way."
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"I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them."
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"I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of what we were doing in story, or doing a certain take: that's not true. Actually the FBI was tremendously enthusiastic about us doing [ J. Edgar Hoover ] film."
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