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" I live in Portland. I'm a man of the world, and I live in Portland. "

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" At HBO, you've just basically got a studio full of artistically driven smart guys and women who really care about the quality first and foremost. "

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" You always feel like rock critics are frustrated musicians. I envy musicians their ability to live their art and share it with an audience, in the moment. "

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" In high school - that's when I first fell in love with his music and his voice. 'Blonde on Blonde' above everything. I vaguely remember 'Desire' coming out. I definitely remember 'Street Legal' and 'Slow Train Coming.' The first time I saw Dylan was on that tour: '79 in L.A. "

" When 'Safe' came out, it was treated respectfully but kind of forgotten. Then, by the end of the '90s, it somehow made it onto all these best-of-the-decade lists. "

" Sirkian films really aren't - at least the way I see them, they're not about identification. They don't have voiceover. A lot of the love stories that are rooted, classic love stories rooted in point of view, use voiceover as a mechanism for locating you there. "

" Love stories require an obstacle between the lovers, something that keeps them from one another. You have to yearn for the love that can't be fulfilled. And it gets harder to conceive of viable cultural or racial or sexual obstacles between people as we move forward progressively. "

" My problem on 'Safe' was that when I liked something, I would giggle. "

" The film division at Amazon is made up of true cineastes who love movies and really want to try and provide opportunity for independent film visions to find their footing in a vastly shifting market. They love cinema. "

" Serious films for grown-ups - 'Michael Clayton,' 'In the Valley of Elah,' 'A Mighty Heart' - these are big Hollywood films, but they have substance and craft and really beautiful performances. "

" I think camp is a really fascinating thing, and it's hard to define and hard to apply consciously. It's almost something you take from material that's already existed in the world, a reading of the world. But I think it speaks of a long tradition of gay reading of the world, before gays were allowed to be visible. "

" There's no better place to do a longform project than HBO. I loved the creative teams I got a chance to work with. "

" Making a film is so scary, and there's such a kind of void that you're working from initially. I mean, you can have all the ideas and be as prepared as possible, but you're also still bringing people together and saying, 'Trust me,' even when you don't necessarily trust every element. "

" I'm used to always having struggles getting finances together and keeping precarious budgets alive in the independent film world. "

" It took an entire generation of critical thinking for Douglas Sirk's films to be really appreciated. "

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" I figured I would be teaching my whole life and making experimental films on the side. "

" I do know my own films don't necessarily work within that high-pressure reductive moment of the opening weekend - or all the ways that many people assess the value of movies. "

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" I think all my films can be enjoyed. In fact, they've often surprised me with how they're received. "

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" When you premiere somewhere like Cannes, it's huge. It's nerve-wracking. "

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