- Nov 07, 2020
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- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 14, I felt very rundown; I had a home to go to, but I felt like I was 60 or something, older than I feel now. And I don't know if it's something that happens at 14, or whether it was adolescence or whether I was gay, or closeted gay, or whatever it was, I felt that.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
In high school, I read 'Silas Marner' and I was very attracted to this character - he was very rundown and he'd just stop, and things would happen around him.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd come into filmmaking as a painter so, for me, making 'Good Will Hunting' was experimental because I didn't know how to do it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The area of teenage life is not necessarily rarefied; we've all gone through that period. It's not as rarefied as a western or a space adventure or a gangster film, but it has its own dynamic.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think over the course of 14 films, I'm returning to a place that I know to tell a story... the same way Spielberg returned to fantasy, Lucas returned to the 'Star Wars' saga, or John Ford returned to the western.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing.
- Path
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're following your track, the story, your only plan, your map for the audience, and all the other stuff is, like, the fun stuff: the costumes, the locations, the set-dressing and the actors. They can all be variable as you like if you stick - however roughly - to the path.
- Psycho
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm thinking of remaking 'Psycho' again. Doing a third remake. The idea this time is to really change it - we're talking about doing a punk rocker setting.
- Fiend
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.
- Conspiring
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've told people who have just started to make a film that the one thing you might experience is this feeling that everybody is conspiring against you, because you're not necessarily able to tell what's real and what's not.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when you're making a movie about life, death is a presence, and I guess it's part of my dramatic viewpoint. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe I'm drawn to it as a story element.
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020