"I became a filmmaker because I wanted to deal with issues that intrigued me, that I thought were pertinent, that would start dialogue."
"There's an anxiety of wanting to please the studios. You want to prove to them that you can do it and sometimes you might jump at a project that you're not totally passionate about."
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