"After Wakefield Poole's films, mine are unnecessary and a bit naive, don't you think?"
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"No matter how widely spread out the films are, how different, you still are you."
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"American films are less American every day, because you have to please a world audience. There's less authenticity, so it's more accessible."
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"Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western."
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"I can multitask very well. But I know exactly when to block off anything coming in from the outside and just stay focused on the film."
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"Filmmakers need to realize that their job isn't done when they lock picture. We must see our films through. Studios no longer do this for a large percentage of films. The odds that your film will get a major campaign are dim these days. So you must find and nurture your own audience and make sure your film has a life."
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"You know, often films that are deemed positive, nobody wants to see them."
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"It was easy for me to show the films to the studio and the network and say, "This is who I'm hiring.""
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"I just remember not having access to films as a young person who loved films but living in Compton."
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"All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct."
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"Film school was a privilege I could not afford."
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"I've always kind of hated films about climate change."
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"I don't necessarily agree with everything I read about my films, but I wouldn't highlight a specific misconception: If people think this or that about myself or my work, they must have their reasons."
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"I love doing action. And I love doing dramatic films, and I'd never really been able to combine them."
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"Movies are very hard to make, to get it all to come together. So many people have their say in what the end product of films are."
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"Richard Donner made great movies. Seminal movies. The Academy, though, and we have to be careful here, should recognize popular films. Popular films are what make it all work. There was a time when popular movies were commercial movies, and they were good movies, and they had to be good movies. There was no segregation between good independent films and popular movies."
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"I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life."
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"I'm not making films just to be bold."
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"What is the point of making the film if the man doesn't marry the girl?"
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"Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation."
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