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" Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires. "

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" My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery. "

" Josh Brolin is an actor that I really, really like; he's fantastic. I worked with him once; he's a really great actor. "

" There are so many projects that don't happen, just sometimes they don't get announced, so no one ever knows about them and you don't have to talk about them. "

" I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad. "

" Some people hate the remixes, some people think it's cool. If you don't like that type of music and just like rock, you probably won't like it. But if you are open to more things, you just might dig it. "

" I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out. "

" I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird. "

" It's never been about making money. "

" I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama. "

" I'm not a big fan of the thought that you can become a star by winning a contest. I'm sort of old-fashioned. I think people need to get out there and they need to work and they need to do their music because they love it. If they become successful, then great, and if they are not, whatever. "

" I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun. "

" To me, horror and comedy never work. Never worked for me, anyway. "

" I like being organized and super particular. "

" I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much. "

" My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal. "

" It was like fighting with the MPAA... to me it was like this is an R easy... but it was NC 17 over and over and even with this cut they were like, you are right on the edge buddy, one more thing and it's NC-17. "

" You know... the only person I really had to please after a point was the MPAA. Because Lions' Gate was like, hey, whatever you can get away with is fine, we don't care. "

" I love Westerns. I really love John Wayne. Frank Capra, any of his movies I love. "

" But I think bands that rolled in with a big attitude, like they were some big deal, I just found that very strange. "

" When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look. "

" I like 1977 because it is more primitive. If it were modern day, like one Universal guy was like wouldn't they just use their cell phone? I guess he did not read that it was 1977 in the script. "

" I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen. "

" Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed. "

" I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes. "

" The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things... I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't. "

" Just getting movies made is difficult because it takes a lot of money; I mean, it costs more money to make one movie than most bands will spend on every single record of their entire career; it's a huge undertaking. "

" The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name. "

" Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid. "