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If you track something like a political campaign and parcel out what's being communicated in a literal and narrative sense, and what's being communicated by means of emotional and symbolic language, you might find that it's the latter elements that absolutely dominate and move people. It makes me want to take that language and expose it.
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I am attracted to anything that does not feel derivative.
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My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.
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It's about creating an atmosphere so that characters can just live in front of the cameras. And to be sensitive, and for the actor to know the sensitivity that they are being observed with.
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It's great making a film and having it embraced and seen. I really enjoy that.
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A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.
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I don't believe in God in the way I often see described by religion.
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You make a movie and you'd like it to be appreciated, respected, embraced.
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People without fathers tend to have two predominant characteristics. They tend to believe anything is possible. At the same time there's an anxiety and an unending insecurity. It's a very American thing because back in the past, we lost our fathers or father. The king.
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My entire life can fit into a knapsack.
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A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.
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I'm interested in telling stories that add up to more than the entertainment of the story. That's what does it for me.
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I'm attracted to stories of people who don't belong together, who embark on something and find themselves in places they don't belong.
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If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.
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I'm actually not a big reader.
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As a filmmaker, one tends to want to evolve evermore towards a place of independence.
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I am nostalgic for those man-behind-the-curtain days when someone could get away with impersonating Kubrick because nobody had any idea what Kubrick looked like.
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Mark Ruffalo is Mark Ruffalo - no explanation needed. He has the biggest heart of anyone I've ever met, and he's sort of the Dave Schultz of the entertainment industry.
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I think, when I meet a person, in general, it's not my habit to conclude anything about people. Not completely. Even people you know well constantly remain open.
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I think Will Ferrell is probably completely evil, the darkest of them all. He is known among comics as the dark knight. An evil, evil man and a dangerous soul.
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If you find yourself considering a project that seems like a layup, then you're diluted, or that movie's probably not the right movie for you to be making.
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The silence of a room when someone enters with a gun is very different from the sound that room makes when empty.
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I don't have many rules, but one of them is, 'Do not make a movie you yourself would not want to see.'
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Film as a medium, like a novel as a medium, possesses a unique ability to communicate. Film is capable of communicating in a way that no other medium can, and I would say the same for the novel.
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