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Vote:   | Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here. |
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Vote: | Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich. |
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Vote: | Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint. |
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Vote: | Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it. |
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Vote: | I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to. |
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Vote: | I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles. |
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Vote: | I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little. |
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Vote: | I don't want to glorify robbing banks, but I come from a world that shares Willis's view, that banks and so on are the biggest crooks of them all. |
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Vote: | I like Ken Loach, Mike Leigh. These are the British filmmakers who haven't sold out, who haven't got hired by Hollywood. |
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Vote: | I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing. |
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Vote: | I never liked school that much, I never fit into any kind of academic program. I never liked official systems of any kind. |
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Vote: | I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen. |
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Vote: | I think maybe making films is something innate you can't really teach to begin with. |
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Vote: | I think that by Hollywood standards, believe it or not, at $27 million, we were kind of low-budget. |
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Vote: | I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors. |
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Vote: | I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films. |
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Vote: | I want to make a film about a factory worker. |
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Vote: | I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years. |
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Vote: | I'm excitable about weird, small projects; that's how my mind works, so you'll get a Tape, a Before Sunset, or a Waking Life. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy. |
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Vote: | I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists. |
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Vote: | I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most. |
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Vote: | I've never done a commercial or directed a music video. I only want to do my films. |
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Vote: | If you have to anticipate emotions, create them artificially, you're rudderless. |
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Vote: | It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form. |
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Vote: | It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance. |
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Vote: | Just like you can't stop filmmakers. The films will get made, somehow, some way, no matter what's going on, and worldwide. |
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Vote: | No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | So I was saving up my money and bought a Super 8 camera, projector, some editing equipment, a bunch of film stock, and moved to Austin. |
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Vote: | Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone. |
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Vote: | The truth will only be told over a career. |
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Vote: | The way that films are released now it's hard to be a word-of-mouth film, where it grows, the way a hit single used to grow. |
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Vote: | The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone. |
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Vote: | Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times. |
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Vote: | Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size. |
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Vote: | When you're dealing with studios, if you have a big failure hovering over you, it just looks bad to the stockholders. |
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Vote: | Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point. |
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Vote: | You're talking about the outsiders in society and how they deal with it and how they justify what they do. I can relate to that. |