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Free time keeps me going.
Usually people just hire me.
I had wanted to do a comedy.
Yeah, I try to be really calm.
I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.
My department is to get actors to do stuff.
I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.
I've always been attracted to temporary families.
I used to take photographs just to remember people.
Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball.
For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.
I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.
You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.
Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up.
My art teacher in junior high was a very out gay man and a mentor to me.
Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.
When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.
If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.
I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.
Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.
Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.
Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.
No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.
Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.
Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.
I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.
The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.
I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.
And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.
I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.
If a movie isn't released, it's one thing, but if you know it will be, it's nice to have closure and see it come out.
When you're on a film and you're doubting something, it's usually because you don't think the audience is going to like it.
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.
Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.
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.
As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.
I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.
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.
I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.
There is a way that a younger person can accept the inevitable problem that they're going to die, whereas somebody a little bit older might be overcome.
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.
There are all kinds of ways that people present their films, but that's kind of a good feeling, if you can make it seem like the characters are really there.
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.
There is a common theme, though, in the stories I have told, which are usually associations of characters or families that are formed outside of a family circle.
The dark comedies tend to be in a non-releasable area. There can be romantic comedies. There can be dramas. But there's no 'dark comedy' inbox for the advertising.
Usually when I read something, first of all I'm looking for the story and then when I reread it, I'm sort of checking every part of it to see if every scene is necessary.
If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you're casting politicians, you can't put up posters and have politicians come down.
A person's sexuality is so much more than one word "gay." No one refers to anyone as just "hetero" because that doesn't say anything. Sexual identity is broader than a label.
I try to get to know the actors as much as I can. I feel like I'm friends with them for starters and for a week or two, we rehearse when they're getting the costumes together.
I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films.