Camper Van Beethoven Quotes
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When I'm writing a story, I try to reduce it to the barest possible components and go from there.
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I guess you could say they consulted with us, but it wasn't like a friendly exchange. We got a cease-and-desist letter from them.
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I never rejected religion, but it just ceased to be an overriding concern in my life.
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I learned to not separate writing, shooting, and editing, it's all sort of one big mess of creative output.
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With the transcendent or supernatural, they help us contextualize our own lives while we are here on this earth. On a narrative level, as a storyteller, they are a wonderful tool and technique by which to explore those hopes, those fears, those existential dilemmas that we all face from time to time.
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I was raised in a deeply Catholic family. There was a sense that everything we were doing was to prepare ourselves for an afterlife in heaven. In my teenage years, that became less important to me. Eventually, that turned into agnosticism, which became atheism.
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There is a palpable sense of history in the homes that I choose to occupy. I think that's one of the reasons I gravitate towards old homes: I really like that sense of history and that sense that I am one step in a very long process that trails out in both directions around me - before me and ahead of me.
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There are some stories - not even stories, some feelings - that you can't accomplish in cinema without using celluloid.
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I think all people are familiar with thinking about their death and trying to come to terms with the fact that we will, at some point, no longer exist. The loss of one's ego is very tough to reconcile with; you really have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to wrap your head around the idea of just not existing anymore.
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I have so many aspirations and interests that would not fit within the Disney brand. I need to make sure I'm engaging those proclivities as well.
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The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new.
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No two people who make a movie on a certain budget scale are going to achieve the same thing because it just depends on what sort of favors you can call, and what sort of dynamics you can pull in the play.
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I find myself very attached to the places I live, and moving is never easy for me.
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The image of a bedsheet ghost standing all alone in an empty house was something I was obsessed with. I really wanted to make a film about that image, and I was waiting for the right story to come along. When it did, I did my best to honor that image.
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I have a longstanding, unapologetic love for Ke$ha.
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A great sense of morality was instilled in me through my upbringing in the Catholic faith - particularly because my father is a moral theologian. And morality is something I believe exists separate from faith, as an intrinsic human quality that one should aspire to understand and participate in.
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You always want your movies to reach the widest audience possible.
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In dialogue scenes, my favorite moments are when people aren't talking because you can cut to the heart of the matter much more quickly, often with a look. People hide things in words. When you don't have words to hide things in, it becomes much more direct and much more immediate of a connection.
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Casey Affleck is someone I want to work with again. We almost had him on 'Pete's Dragon,' but his scheduling issues didn't work out.
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In my darkest moments, I have not eaten an entire pie, but I have turned to other baked goods to find solace.
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I have a very short attention span, which is funny. I mean, you'd watch me and think that I don't, but I actually do.
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I'm always making movies for my audiences, but I'm not trying to meet their expectations.
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They were the first to offer, and that's the only place I really wanted to play. For me, I love the city of Boise and I'm really comfortable with the whole staff down there. And what I like most about that program is they win and they win the right way.
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I make movies to be watched the way I want to watch them, and I want to watch them in movie theatres.