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" Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all. "

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" I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues. "

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" I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper. "

" Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too. "

" Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things. "

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