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" I'm not very good at knowing what people want. I don't have that talent. The best I can do is make films that resonate with me and see what happens. "

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" I really believe my films are going to be successful, that I'm making 'The Blair Witch Project' - something that will transcend expectations and resonate with people. "

" You can tell so much about somebody by the films they make, and it's only while I approach this do I now realize how much of the filmmaker you can see in their films. "

" I really feel like if they'd have let me just pace in the back of the classroom while the teacher was talking, I'd have done much better. I have to move. But you know, that's disruptive for the class, and as a result, there was a ripple effect of having to sit still that found its way into every aspect of my life. "

" Anybody could write a bad script, and I'm one of them, you know? "

" You feel good if you've done hard work. You sleep better. You get stuck in your head if you have too much time to think. "

" I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was very different than I had imagined it. "

" What a lot of people don't understand about the NC-17, which I didn't understand, is that you can't show it in major theater chains - and you can't even air spots for your film on television. It really stigmatizes the movie. "

" I don't think you can discriminate against budgets, you know? I'm an actor, I guess, so I'm just trying to play as many characters as I can. If there's a character I think I can play, and they're going to let me do it, I'll do it whether it's $10 or $1 million or more. "

" I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor. "

" My first exposure to what Hollywood was like, behind the scenes, was when Joel Silver started screaming at Roger Rabbit at the beginning of 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit.' "

" I grew up on Shane Black movies, and I grew up on Joel Silver movies. "

" I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you're just getting started, and then it's over. "

" For me, I sort of felt like it was kind of a fairytale... but an interesting one. I don't know of anybody who has had a romance quite like this, but I certainly know people who have stuck it out. "

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" I guess there's something about you don't know why you're attracted to a character, but you're attracted to them enough to want to - it's like when a song comes on, and you feel like dancing. You don't know why; you just want to dance. It's hard to analyze that feeling, and if you do, you get far away from it. "

" That's the power of film. If it's good, it can somehow make you feel connected to even the farthest thing from your own experience. "

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" Sometimes I think that the one thing I love most about being an adult is the right to buy candy whenever and wherever I want. "

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" When you meet your kids, you realize that they deserve great parents. And then you have your marching orders, and you have to try and become the person that they deserve. "