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" I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend. "

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" I hadn't made a big-budget film, and in Hollywood there's a sort of man and boys situation. You're a man, you make $80 million movies! As if it's harder to make an $80 million movie. Well, I guess businesswise it is because you have more executives to argue with. "

" I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not. "

" I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything. "

" If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas. "

" I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films. "

" Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film. "

" Because I didn't have brothers, I was always interested in the kids down the street that had four brothers in their family, so I became one of them - but it was not my family. "

" There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle. "

" Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking. "

" I think that for the actors, the last thing that they want is a director that's not watching, a director that goes 'Okay, it sounded good to me,' and they were doing something else or preoccupied with something else because they were worried about the light changing. "

" When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today. "

" If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out. "

" The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay. "

" There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there. "

" If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have politicians come down. "

" My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. "

" The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture. "

" I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before. "

" My department is to get actors to do stuff. "

" I've always been attracted to temporary families. "

" I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film. "

" I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation. "

" I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it. "

" There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before. "

" The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know. "

" Usually people just hire me. "

" The biopic also wasn't a form that I necessarily believed in, because you can never really get it right, you know? It's also a form that's very popular - the straight-ahead biopic. "

" Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted. "

" One of the things that is devastating is I realise I haven't been living a different life than when I was, like, 12. I'm shocked at how reclusive I've been since then. I was unaware of it until recently. "

" Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s. "