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" I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself, and I know that my intentions are pure and I'm on the side of righteousness. "

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" I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way. "

" I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty. "

" I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry. "

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" I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way. "

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" Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress. "

" Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking. "

" I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.' "

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