And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really
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Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
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And the people doing them don’t even know each other, or know each other under pressure, or know each other when things are really
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That’s the thing about making a movie: You never finish editing. They just take it away from you.
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The world is constantly changing. You’re constantly learning and you have to be willing to get off your mark
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I grew up in the ’60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn’t that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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I don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
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Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it’s like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’
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How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this ‘I, me, mine’ type of thing.
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I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.
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It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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Most filmmaking is about shaking hands and just starting.
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A script is not a piece of literature, it’s a process.
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With ‘New Rose Hotel,’ I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that’s all I was going to get.
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I’m about my characters.
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My job is going to be to direct the film – I’m going to do it. And that’s where my job ends.
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I don’t need to push myself. I don’t need to sharpen my own knife and slit my throat.
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