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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.

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Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.

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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.

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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.

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I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles.

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I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.

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To jump from the indie ranks to play with the big dogs, there's a gate you have to pass through.

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Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich.

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I like films that just put you in someone's world. It can be very subversive. Hitchcock would put you in the mind of a psychopath, and you'd care about them.

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The truth will only be told over a career.

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I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors.

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I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

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I've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break through commercially.

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The natural phenomenon of the universe is so mind-blowing, but you have to know about it. You have to be curious. You've got to find it on your own. If you're lucky, you do.

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I guess I don't have a grandiose view of the world in general, and I never believe it when someone else has a grandiose moment.

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No one believes this, but when I'm working, it's the same, whether I'm working on 'Bad News Bears,' 'Before Sunset,' 'A Scanner Darkly,' or 'Fast Food Nation.' I'm the same person, trying to make it work.

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Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris.

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Maybe part of being a dad means that the slightest little thing will make me tear up.

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County jail in some ways can be the most dangerous because it's often the least regulated.

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I try to avoid bad experiences.

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It's just too late to ban all guns. There are 300 million. We should've done that after the Civil War - that's when we should've taken away guns and defined what militias were. But we didn't do it then, and we can't now.

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My plan B has always been to make a film about people who talk a lot.

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The film culture has no room for ideas. The literary culture has some room, but not less than they should, and the academic culture has a lot, but there's no way to communicate it in a wide way.

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Ulrik Ottinger was the most real and experimental of all the German New Wave directors. She was probably the most out-there, too. She's a fascinating artist in that world.

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As you get older, you want less from the world; you just want to experience it. Any barriers to feeling emotions get dismantled. And ordinary things become beautifully poetic.

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As I get older, my emotions are closer to the surface.

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I played baseball in high school, and in some parallel universe, if I had not gone into filmmaking, I may have been the coach cursing at the kids.

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I'm a huge Nagisa Oshima fan. He was one of the most radical Japanese directors to come up in the '60s.

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I have an uncomfortable groove, 'cause I have a lot of different kinds of stories to tell.

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A certain kind of film is a big theatrical film and a certain kind of film isn't. It doesn't bother me so much that you can pick your format.

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I grew up in Huntsville, which is a main prison town. It's crazy. The conditions are so bad in prison, often, for the inmates.

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I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.

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Storytelling is powerful; film particularly. We can know a lot of things intellectually, but humans really live on storytelling. Primarily with ourselves; we're all stories of our own narrative.

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