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“I always had that long-term vision. Even getting going with cinema, knowing it was such a long road to be able to make films, but I always had a long term. Whenever I was starting out, I had that patience.”
“Trump has a lot less than he says he does.”
“For a lot of us, awareness is merely realizing the extent to which we've been lied to all our lives. You start educating yourself. You become motivated; you follow your muse where it takes you. And you see the world in a different way. You start making decisions based on what you feel is right.”
“If you want to just make a good movie, if you don't enjoy every step and become a master of each little moment, then you shouldn't be doing it.”
“The '70s kind of sucked.”
“My dad's chill. He's the guy who, you wreck the car, he says, 'Well, nobody was hurt. It's just some metal.'”
“I don't want to be nostalgic for some kind of laid-back Austin where nothing was happening.”
“I've always been interested in the industrialization of our food; it's been an issue for me from an environmental and animal rights and human health perspective.”
“When I did 'Slacker,' I didn't own cowboy hats or boots. I was like, 'That's not me.'”
“The truth will only be told over a career.”
“I remember when I made 'A Scanner Darkly,' going, 'I hope people see it in theater - but I think it's going to be seen in someone's room at two in the morning.' It's that kind of movie. And I would have loved if it had been available on multiple formats at the moment it opened.”
“Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.”
“I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.”
“The theatrical marketplace is a challenge. What do you have to do to get someone to purchase a movie ticket to your movie? You have to do something that they've never seen before; you've got to enthrall them in a new way.”
“I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.”
“Some of our favorite films are obviously not written by the person who directed it. And yet a 'Taxi Driver,' or some Nicholas Ray movie, like 'In a Lonely Place,' seems so personal or obsessive or whatever.”
“Music and smells are the most memory-recall, nostalgia-inducing things.”
“My plan B has always been to make a film about people who talk a lot.”
“Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.”
“I always say I'll never make a film in Austin in summer, but I always end up here.”