"Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind."
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"Morocco: Looks better in films."
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"I'm not a big shoot-em-up, bang-bang. I like romantic films."
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"My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan."
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"The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them."
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"The traditional ways to make a film, the traditional ways to share a film, have all collapsed. There are no gatekeepers, per se, any more, and anything can be done. Truly, I feel that."
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"If the money's right, I'll do a film."
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"Making a film, setting it up and getting it cast and getting it together, is not an easy thing"
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"If one horror film hits, everyone says, 'Let's go make a horror film.' It's the genre that never dies."
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"I usually want to crawl into the ground after I make a film, almost invariably."
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"I hope I don't become just an animation [with a digital film]."
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"Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high."
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"We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry."
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"I feel like I'm a fan of film who's actually in the business, too. So it'd be like saying like, ‘Yeah, I love the NFL,’ and then, ‘Yeah, I'm also a wide receiver.’"
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"If you think anyone goes out and commits crimes because of some daffy film they've seen, then I question your judgment."
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"I didn't go to film school. I got my education on the set as a niche publicist in the film industry."
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"I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express."
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"There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not."
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"Would I do it again? Film another movie? Oh yeah."
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"Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop."
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