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- Entire Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My entire life can fit into a knapsack.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would be absurd for me to have that ambition.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to have something that I can challenge common-sense notions about, challenge the apparent truths, and really look past the many faces of a thing to see what's behind it.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think, when I meet a person, in general, it's not my habit to conclude anything about people. Not completely. Even people you know well constantly remain open.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes the facts can get in the way of the telling of a good story. But they don't get in the way of the truth.
- Coupled
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am attracted to these outsider characters who just don't belong anywhere, and who are operating in worlds they sort of don't fit, coupled with huge ambitions.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, personally, the value of a film is not determined by a review, but the health of the film is.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are attracted to entertainment, for sure, or jokes, excitement and romantically heightened stories that might be false, but are still attractive fantasies.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, my smartest business decision was to never do anything that I didn't love doing.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My business life is really simple. It's like, get check. Put check in bank. Pay rent. I've never bought a stock in my life. I never got caught up in that trip. And the truth is, I don't obsess about money ever.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think the mind has a way of getting to where it needs to get to. If you are persistent.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a tumbleweed. I don't have a company. I don't have a staff. I don't own anything - I've never owned a car or an apartment.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can write ten versions of a scene, and then, on the day, discover that something in the original scene worked. It's hard on writers. Hard on actors, hard on editors, hard on me, hard on the producers, who require patience and confidence. But I can't get to the end without going through this process.
- Patience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a tremendous amount of patience and tolerance when working with people, but if I ever feel the impulse to inhibit myself from doing one more take, or feel a need to apologize to someone for pushing, I know that that relationship isn't gonna last.
- Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like going into a scene knowing that the script isn't quite finished, that there's something that isn't really going to reveal itself until something spontaneously occurs.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before I find myself in the middle of a project, I want to make sure it is the kind of thing that keeps me excited for two years. Otherwise, it will be very difficult to push the proverbial rock up the proverbial mountain.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think in terms of content and subjects and whatever kind of production it dictates. Can I conceive of an idea that would really connect with my personal rhythms and cost a lot of money? I don't gravitate in that direction, but it is possible.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It couldn't be more satisfying to work on something almost anonymously for years, then to have it received affectionately with support.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
People without fathers tend to have two predominant characteristics. They tend to believe anything is possible. At the same time there's an anxiety and an unending insecurity. It's a very American thing because back in the past, we lost our fathers or father. The king.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I definitely have moments in my life where I discovered a film, and the language of the film itself spoke to me in a way, as if someone came up to you and started speaking a language you'd never heard but understood and was able to express things the language you knew could not.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always something happening in pretty much every moment of every scene of everything I've ever worked on in longform that's not being expressed or acknowledged.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to rehearse to the point we're in the ballpark, and expect that we're only going to get one proper take, more or less.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Capote is one of those people who represents something larger than himself. I think that his ambition, his kind of success, and the downfall that followed are very contemporary.
- Concealed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kubrick has a divining rod for the concealed, alienating secrets of characters.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
The silence of a room when someone enters with a gun is very different from the sound that room makes when empty.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am nostalgic for those man-behind-the-curtain days when someone could get away with impersonating Kubrick because nobody had any idea what Kubrick looked like.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The one thing I'll say is I was a quiet kid. Much more of an observer than a performer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a filmmaker, you're looking to reveal something. When other people relate to it, it makes an otherwise lonely world a little less lonely.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's about creating an atmosphere so that characters can just live in front of the cameras. And to be sensitive, and for the actor to know the sensitivity that they are being observed with.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to take something based on budget and do something just for the sake of it. I want to make good films.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a very uneasy relationship between money and creativity, between money and almost everything. Its tendency to control and corrupt - whether it's in arts or education or politics, hardly anything is untouched by it. Journalism certainly is up there. Everything is susceptible to it.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mark Ruffalo is Mark Ruffalo - no explanation needed. He has the biggest heart of anyone I've ever met, and he's sort of the Dave Schultz of the entertainment industry.
- Encouragement
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important for an actor to feel like they're really being watched and to receive feedback and encouragement about the aspects of what they're doing that feels truthful - and also to raise awareness when they might be resorting to habits and tricks, which every actor has.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when an actor feels like they're being watched with great sensitivity and a subtle eye and a nose for truthfulness, that has some effect.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every film requires a different process. You learn about these particular actors and the particular chemistry between these actors. Recognizing when you don't need to shoot a scene because it's going to be cut anyway.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am attracted to characters who are in worlds where they don't belong and who have great ambitions that they imagine will somehow reconcile themselves with the world and make things right.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I learned a little bit about du Pont and a little bit about Mark Schultz, I was attracted to the notion that these incredibly different people found each other and seemed, for a moment, to be the answer that each was looking for.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know of a filmmaker who does not feel buoyed and lifted when their peers embrace the work.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making a film is a challenge.
- Get
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's hard. It's hard to get a film made properly.
- Powerful
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's really powerful and potentially dominating forces when you make a film that can harm it if you're incapable of orchestrating things.
- Component
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chemistry exists or it doesn't, and I think casting is a very underappreciated component of filmmaking.
- Happen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really tried to get comfortable with the notion of shooting digital on 'Foxcatcher' and just couldn't. I shot many tests and experimented with all sorts of techniques to manipulate it into a place that worked for us, but it just didn't happen.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
Silence is absorption, and when you're watching a film and you're that quiet and you're that still, at least from my experience of watching films, that indicates an absorption, where you're really in the moment. You're really present. What you're seeing is vital to you in that moment, and it's tingling, and it's alive, and it matters.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like sensationalizing events. Instead of making waves, I want to make everything settle, so we can see to the bottom of things.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have many rules, but one of them is, 'Do not make a movie you yourself would not want to see.'
- Obstacles
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a vision for something, things are navigable. If it gets fuzzy, then obstacles become much more formidable.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of the time, excess on a film set is just damaging.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you track something like a political campaign and parcel out what's being communicated in a literal and narrative sense, and what's being communicated by means of emotional and symbolic language, you might find that it's the latter elements that absolutely dominate and move people. It makes me want to take that language and expose it.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Filmmaking requires the participation and cooperation of many people. It's unrealistic to expect that you're not going to be challenged by unforeseeable forces from every direction.
- Here
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to rehearse. We did a lot of rehearsals for 'Moneyball,' but it is really individual to the actor. It's not like, 'Here is my process, everybody. Fit in.'
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am and always have been fascinated with people, and I have a very good time coming up with the narratives of people's lives, exploring how a person thinks and feels.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a paradox in politics that what it takes to get elected is not necessarily what it takes to govern, and my feeling is that trying to control things too much feels icky to me.
- Film
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's fair to ask how truthful a film is as opposed to how factual it is.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
If something is to be quietly powerful, it requires more balance than a film that allows for more freneticism.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what it's like to be genuinely intrigued and compelled by a story and to have a sense that there's an adventure to be had and a film to be conjured.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Will Ferrell is probably completely evil, the darkest of them all. He is known among comics as the dark knight. An evil, evil man and a dangerous soul.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm actually not a big reader.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a filmmaker, one tends to want to evolve evermore towards a place of independence.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I will say - one thing that is attractive about getting a real film made within the studio system is that studio systems, with their marketing and distribution, have real power.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Film as a medium, like a novel as a medium, possesses a unique ability to communicate. Film is capable of communicating in a way that no other medium can, and I would say the same for the novel.
- Gripping
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- Nov 07, 2020
Kenny Lonergan, as a filmmaker, doesn't tell stories so much as he observes them, which is to say, his films don't come pre-digested. You have to bring your own enzymes. It's a more gripping and challenging experience.
- Nov 07, 2020
As a filmmaker, you want people to understand and get what you do, and it's a lot to ask for.
- Heavy
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had a dozen lives, one of them would involve really getting off the rails in India, heavy into meditation.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hardly read fiction; I mostly read nonfiction. I like to examine material things.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020