- Depicted
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't seem to escape comedy. Whenever I sit down and try to write something serious, it just doesn't work.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I kind of thought I would only work exclusively in the world of naturalistic comedy drama, but there is this side of me that also loves Hollywood, and I wanted to see what that felt like.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I read a script, I always - the first question I ask myself is, 'Is there something that I could bring to it that maybe the next guy wouldn't?' Because I've read a lot of very good scripts and thought there are people who could do this better than I.
- Good Actors
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth is, good actors are always looking to do something different. They are dying to play slightly odder characters or work on movies that aren't straight down the middle.
- Nov 07, 2020
I specialize in movies that people say are underrated, with the exception of 'Superbad.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have some pride in the things I've done, but I'm pretty hard on myself. Part of looking at my old work is to motivate me to try harder.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, it's important to try and make an emotional connection with the audience.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
My own personal geek culture years were when I was much younger. I collected comic books up until a certain age. I wanted to be a comic book artist when I was younger.
- Con
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not someone who's gone to Comic Con as a devotee.
- Awkward
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the most awkward man alive.
- Denial
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- Nov 07, 2020
I certainly did work at an amusement park. In 1985. Wow - I'm in denial about the year. I was in college, and I had no skills.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In indies, life is very dark and realistic, and in mainstream films, the edges are all rounded off and very sentimentalized.
- Blatant
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having grown up in a Catholic family, while I felt like I was never conscious of any blatant anti-Semitism, I was aware of a slightly insidious, us-versus-them mentality. A lot of my best friends and early girlfriends were Jewish, and I encountered what was more of a suburban small-mindedness, of people needing to defend their tribe.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The joke is that no matter how much we think we can evolve, we'll never escape our limitations.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked for seven years doing computer graphics to pay my way through graduate school - I have no romance with computer work. There's no amount of phony graphics and things making sound effects on the screen that can change that.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a long love of fantasy and science-fiction.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to think I have a strange affinity for the embarrassing. Not sure what that says about me. But I like the awkward, uncomfortable comedy.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember on my very first film, which Steven Soderberg executive-produced, he said, 'Try not to repeat yourself. Do things that scare you.' Even if it's a challenge, I want people to say that this guy tried this thing. Hopefully he learned from it.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like I'm thin skinned, I guess, but I thought I could never write about my youth for the longest time. It took getting to my forties before I could even look back on it.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Holy Grail audience are young people and, at the end of the day, that's who gets courted.
- Hair
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have alopecia. My hair fell out when I was in college and I didn't take it so well.
- Nostalgia
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.
- Art Student
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first-ever job in the movie business, I was an art student at Carnegie Mellon, and they were shooting the movie 'Gung Ho' in Pittsburgh, and I worked as an extra for a few days. Michael Keaton bumped into me in one scene, and it's in the movie. And I worshipped him.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had always thought my fantasy career would be making indie films and doing my own thing. But then 'Superbad' came along, and it totally changed everything. It was so hilarious and smart and extreme; you could probably do a psychoanalysis term paper on the male sexual psyche going on there.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first saw 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High,' I thought: That's what my life is like. That's my day-to-day.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like high concept movies very much, and the kind of scripts that I would occasionally get offered tended to be really high concept comedies or romantic comedies. I just don't like it. I like much more realistic movies with actual psychology and behavior in them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020