"Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life."
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"It was great for that to be my first movie with such a wonderful cast, and such a huge movie. And now I get to do The Fighting Temptations, which is coming out soon-it wasn't much of a character, it was more of a real person, so I got to show more of my acting range."
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"Well, actors get very frustrated with giving control to other people. They have their own ideas and wants for their characters. Warren Beatty once told me that he thought actors ended up directing out of frustration. If you have a strong sense of how to communicate a film, you should direct. The problem is that it is a huge commitment. I'd rather direct a play than a film due to the time. A movie can tie you up for a year or more."
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"Every movie is unknown."
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"After making several tragic movies in a row, I was looking to do a comedy, and one without cynicism."
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"3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning."
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"If there's something that can be formulated, regulated, give you security, then nobody would lose money. Every movie would be successful. And that's certainly not the case."
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"You become the movie you are making."
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"I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?""
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"I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about."
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"Economically, it’s more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that."
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"A movie is really provocation. It's not a message, it's not a statement."
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"I think a movie is a media that is evoking feelings."
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"'Rocket Science' is really where I fell in love with filmmaking, I think 'Camp' was incredible, but it was so bizarre, and I was trying to find my footing in this world where you don't have an audience for immediate validation."
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"I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it."
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"As far as the filmmaking process is concerned, stars are essentially worthless - and absolutely essential."
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"If my films don't show a profit, I know I'm doing something right."
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"The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes."
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"Most movies are not very good. Most people know it and like to see them anyway."
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"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."
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