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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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Having someone cook all your meals is the best vacation ever!
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It was hard for me to hear anyone saying they didn't like 'Billy Madison.'
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I've been lucky enough to work in pop culture, especially with people right before they popped.
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What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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Many of the stranger but most frequently quoted scenes in 'Billy Madison' were unplanned.
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I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.
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There's no continuity in videos... you can jump around all over the place. In features, you can't throw in a close-up of a musician stomping on a guitar - you have to film a scene.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I have been lucky in my life to have met people that are special, so extraordinary talented that they somehow are on a different plane. Sometimes these amazingly talented people find a way to keep reinventing themselves to stay relevant and alive. Some fall under the crushing vibrancy of their own intensity.
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.
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I do have a priority in my house, and that is I want my kids to be healthy, and if I give them the right food, I am headed consistently toward that goal.
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A mom can't afford to be sick.
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Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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