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“I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.”
“I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.”
“When I saw 'subUrbia' on stage, I started having those feelings inside me. I saw it as a film, and I felt I knew the characters, or I was the characters. It really dredged up all this stuff in me that never went away.”
“I remember playing for coaches who seemed like military-type guys. It always rubbed me the wrong way.”
“My working method has always been, 'Work really hard and get it right the first time.'”
“'Slacker' is so not about navel-gazing.”
“I'm kind of an old theater guy, so I'm sort of attuned to it. Like, when I go to New York, I go to plays.”
“I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.”
“County jail in some ways can be the most dangerous because it's often the least regulated.”
“I admire people who can just brazenly go through the world.”
“The arts were like, there's no opponent. It's just yourself. I'm not saying they don't make the arts a competition with awards and all that, but that's outside the work itself.”
“I really do remember everything. I see people I haven't seen in 20 years, and I can talk with them about what we talked about outside the high school.”
“I always thought that I had a pretty diverse body of work, I mean, as far as subject matter. Teenage rock and roll movie; romance; '20s Western. On paper it looks different, but then there's similarities in the vibe of them.”
“Every film's different; every story is so different. But I think I've always been attracted to try to take something minimal and to maximize it cinematically. To find out if I can I really go all the way with one idea.”
“Every day's a hustle.”
“I'm the kid who wanted to grow up and be Bugs Bunny. I was very, very disappointed when I realized I couldn't grow up and be a cartoon character.”
“I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most.”
“I think I’m always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself.- Celine”
“We emphasize negativity and violence in the media because that's what grabs everybody's attention, but in the real world, it's mostly people being very cooperative and caring and connected and kind. That's the norm of human experience. And yet, what gets our attention is the very opposite.”
“I think people forget how radical the narrative of 'Slacker' is. There's no story, you know? We could go from one character to the next to the next and never return.”