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" All these people who say success changes people; well, no, it just magnifies what's there. "
Success
Well
Who
" Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it. "
Something
Take
Any
" Don't let anybody tell you different, man: The main goal in life careerwise should always be to try to get paid to simply be yourself. "
Yourself
Man
Life
" Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat. "
Dudes
Know
Threat
" Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience. "
Talent
Experience
Got
" I always wanted to see if I could sell a movie to the public without doing any marketing because my philosophy was like, 'Hey man, I'm reaching my audience everyday. I'm twittering with them. I'm in direct contact with them on the podcast.' "
Audience
Always
Doing
" I didn't get into film to win Academy Awards. I wanted to have a conversation with the audience. "
Get
Film
Audience
" If you're lucky, you go from being a movie fan to a movie maker. "
Movie
Being
Go
" I grew up in a pretty gay world - my brother's gay and he's been married to a man for 20 years, which is like 60 in straight-people years. "
Like
World
Brother
" I know what it feels like to carry a lot of weight in a society that's very image-conscious. It's a thin person's world, and we try to navigate within it without being made fun of. "
Know
Person
World
" Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up. "
Film
Grew
Indie
" I say what other people won't. "
People
Other
Say
" I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest. "
Honest
Far
People
" It's kind of debatable whether or not the advertisement model is effective. Like whether Nielsen works. For years, Nielsen has been based on sampling. It's not like an electronic bullet that hits your house that tells the people at networks at all times what you're watching. "
You
Watching
People
" It's like a dream come true. When somebody is paying you to talk about yourself, you've won. "
You
True
Talk
" It's silly that anyone in this world tells you that there are only certain people that can marry you. "
Marry
Silly
World
" It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie. "
Camera
Everyone
Like
" It's too expensive, that's the thing nobody wants to talk about. It is too expensive to make movies. That's not true, it is too expensive to market movies. Making movies is not. "
Movies
Talk
Expensive
" Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved. "
Long
Long Time
Questions
" Other filmmakers make their movies and put them out and that's that. For me, for some odd reason, it goes deeper than that. "
Movies
Odd
Out
" The older you get, the more you realize you cannot win on the Internet. "
Older
Win
Internet
" The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out. That's why I'm always hoping society never collapses because the first ones to go will be entertainers. "
People
Life
Society
" There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be. "
Expectations
Feel
People
" The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue. "
Long
World
Culture
" When you're a filmmaker you're part of a very expensive art form. "
Part
You
Art
" When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express. "
You
Artist
Trying
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