"Watched Star Wars in 77 and that's when I got into watching films. I was just blown away by it."
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"Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures."
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"If you take the time and put in the effort to write your own material and absolutely refuse to be denied the right to make your film it is difficult whatever colour you are."
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"Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them."
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"I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot."
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"The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move."
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"I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?"
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"The picture's over. Now I have to go and put it on film."
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"I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which is sad really."
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"Raju Hirani films are filled with simplicity and goodness. I really love such films."
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"I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocuous that I supposedly said on Twitter before I was even on Twitter. So then I had to get on Twitter to say: 'This is me. I'm on Twitter. If there's somebody else saying that they're me on Twitter, they're not.'"
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"I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like."
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"Films that I want to do are few and far between."
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"I never start editing a film until it's completely shot; I don't edit along the way, ever. When it's finished I come in here [screening room] and we start with reel one, scene one and start editing shot by shot by shot until we're finished."
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"You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences."
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"I like films, or some films, and would be intrigued to see my work on screen."
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"I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work."
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"There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films."
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"Every film is exciting because I get new tools and cool new things to do."
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"I would never knowingly go into a film that I wouldn't pay to see, or something that didn't challenge me."
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