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" I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too. "

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" I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director. "

" I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope. "

" 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. "

" I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer. "

" When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the tone and feel of things. I try to create a place where you feel that anything's possible. "

" I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them. "

" I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since. "

" When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules. "

" What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra. "

" Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice. "

" I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life. "

" I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything. "

" When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome. "

" I tried working odd jobs that had nothing to do with creating, and it was difficult for me. In the end, I just always loved movies. When I'm making a film, I feel most alive, like I'm doing the right thing, and I'm in the place where I need to be. "

" 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 look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music. "

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

" I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night. "

" Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance. "

" 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. "

" Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory. "

" Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches. "

" 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.' "

" I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school. "

" I use to live on this street when I was a kid where there was an old person retirement home, and all of the old people would listen to that band Herman's Hermits, and they would wear white nursing shoes. And they would throw away stacks of VHS tapes, and I would go through the trash and take them. "

" I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball. "

" I never cared about making one coherent masterpiece with a conventional narrative. I always wanted my movies to have images falling from all directions in a vaudevillian way. If you didn't like what was happening in one scene, you could just snooze through it until the next scene. "

" 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. "

" I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do. "