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" I gotta tell you, I don't have many close friends, and if I do wind up making friends with somebody, it takes me a long time, usually. "
Terry Zwigoff
You
Friends
Long
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" Just to get the actors to relax, listen to each other, and actually affect each other, there are a number of techniques you have to learn, and they don't all work on every actor. "
Terry Zwigoff
Learn
Relax
Work
" I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I'd rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa... I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better. "
Terry Zwigoff
Hope
Better
Audience
" Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't know how he would have handled that, because it was getting pretty crazy. I mean, a celebrity which he really did not welcome. And I can't blame him. "
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Moving
Welcome
Time
" If I see my films described as 'quirky' or, even worse, 'snarky' one more time, I'm going to probably seriously consider an early retirement. All these years, I've labored under the conceit that they were "darkly humorous.' "
Terry Zwigoff
Retirement
Early
Time
" I collect old Coon Chicken Inn memorabilia. I collect black memorabilia, like old minstrel posters. It was a real place. There was one in Seattle, one in Portland, and one in Salt Lake City. They started in 1925, and then they went out of business around 1958. "
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Black
Business
Place
" The first scene I ever shot for 'Louie Bluie,' on that first day, I had never seen the camera before. I didn't know where to put it. I just knew what was strong about these guys and what I wanted to capture, so I tried to work backward from there and figure it out. Trial and error. Hopefully I got a little bit better at it. "
Terry Zwigoff
Know
Strong
Better
" The things I want to make into a film, they're personal, esoteric things, and I don't expect anyone else to like them as much as I do. I generally like my films more than anybody else will. "
Terry Zwigoff
Want
Will
Personal
" I did turn down 'The Virgin Suicides.' I talked to the producers about it, and I just honestly told them that I didn't get it. Is it supposed to be funny, is it a thriller, what is it? "
Terry Zwigoff
Turn
Thriller
Just
" Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do. "
Terry Zwigoff
Myself
Family
Story
" The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads. "
Terry Zwigoff
Business
You
Who
" I try to make a film that's very entertaining, very funny, but also gives you something to think about. And the strongest thing I have to offer is my point of view, to get across how I see the world in hopes that it can change the way other people see the world, hopefully for the better. "
Terry Zwigoff
World
You
Change
" I think the other misconceptions when the film came out, he was very upset that it was so widely released and so widely seen. And neither one of us - well, I think I had hopes it would be, 'cause I really did think it was something special. "
Terry Zwigoff
Upset
Well
Film
" People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, like 'Donald Duck' comics. "
Terry Zwigoff
Comics
Think
Only
" I was inspired to do anything I could to get out of what I was doing... today, I'm motivated to pay the bills. "
Terry Zwigoff
Anything
Doing
Inspired
" My hat's off to documentary filmmakers. I don't know if I'm ever going back to it. You're treated like a second-class citizen at most film festivals. You take the bus while everybody else is flown first-class. If you're a feature film director, you're put in a five-star hotel, and if you're a documentary director, you stay in a Motel 6. "
Terry Zwigoff
Festivals
Back
Know
" So I told Robert from the start that if we couldn't get Charles and Max to take part, but especially Charles, that I didn't want to make the film. So would he call his mother and talk to Charles and see if Charles would at all be interested. "
Terry Zwigoff
See
Talk
Start
" Maybe if I found something I was really passionate about, which is entirely possible, I would make another documentary, but it's not a good career choice for anybody. I don't recommend it. "
Terry Zwigoff
Passionate
Good
Choice
" When I went around promoting 'Crumb,' there would be days I'd wake up in, like, Houston or Cleveland, and I'd step outside the hotel and get no idea where I was. It all looks the same: one big corporate, consumer theme park. It's all, 'Here's the Starbucks, and here's the Gap, and we'll go over to Banana Republic and the Cineplex.' "
Terry Zwigoff
Starbucks
Hotel
Looks
" Oh yes, I've been approached to do all sorts of nonsense. How about a remake of 'West Side Story?' "
Terry Zwigoff
Story
Nonsense
West
" I never saw a department store Santa as a kid. My mother was afraid to take me. "
Terry Zwigoff
Mother
Afraid
Me
" And I sense it was a rather constructed, almost half narrative fiction film in some ways. A lot of it was staged and manipulated to get those things in there that I knew to be strong. "
Terry Zwigoff
Strong
Be Strong
Film
" A lot of things I have turned down ended up being a big embarrassment. Like that script, 'The Beaver.' I thought that was one of the worst scripts I had ever read. But everyone said, 'Ooh it's on the Black List.' Yeah, well, good for it. They're a bunch of idiots. I saw the final film, and there were no surprises. "
Terry Zwigoff
Down
Black
Good
" For a long time, there was this rumor that I turned down doing 'Austin Powers,' which is not true. While they did send me the script, I don't think I was ever a serious consideration to direct it. I'm sure they probably sent it to 20 others as well. "
Terry Zwigoff
Long
Serious
Doing
" That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end. "
Terry Zwigoff
Understand
Think
Worth
" If I start paying attention to the mechanics of a film while watching it, then it's generally a bad film. "
Terry Zwigoff
Attention
Film
Bad
" I think my father kept struggling to get us into better neighborhoods, better schools. One of the worst jobs he had was folding shirts under these fluorescent lights all day at the equivalent of a Kmart. I remember visiting him at work, thinking, 'When I grow up, I've got to do anything else.' "
Terry Zwigoff
Work
Day
Grow
" Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place - I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it would fall, all the decaying brown brick buildings around where we lived, all this soot all over the place. "
Terry Zwigoff
Me
Snow
Remember
" Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same. "
Terry Zwigoff
Same
Films
Foreign
" People like light and silly, and they like stuff that's really energetic, and you get a character in a film bouncing around and screaming, people laugh. That's all it takes. I don't find that funny. To me, what's funny is dialogue and nuance of character and performance. "
Terry Zwigoff
Laugh
Character
People
" Certain types of films will never test well. My films never seem to test well. "
Terry Zwigoff
Seem
Will
Well