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I just wanted it to be American.
Gucci Mane is trap rap's Frank Sinatra.
I've never been into alternative, hipster rap music.
Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.
I tried college and I hated that. I seem to quit everything I do.
I've always - honestly - never thought of myself as an independent director.
I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.
I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
I was free when I was 12 because I got my first skateboard. I've been free ever since.
I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh.
What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.
I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
Sometimes, when you watch people play a video game, they seem lost in this wormhole, or in a trance.
Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.
I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.
I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.
I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
I have no desire for any type of introspection at all. I don't ever ask myself any questions. I don't want answers.
My knock with filmmaking is the whole bureaucracy around it, so in some ways, staying outside of it is easier for me.
What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra.
Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.
I just haven't let myself get to a place where I've felt a part of any kind of a community, so I've always stayed outside of it.
I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
I have a pretty good family. But ever since I was little, I just felt like I wanted to be on my own. It was the same thing about school.
Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
I never really feel wrong while making movies. I know myself, and I know that my intentions are pure and I'm on the side of righteousness.
I don't listen to music made by white people. I especially hate anything where a guitar is used. I don't listen to white people and guitars.
I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema.
After 100 years, films should be getting really complicated. The novel has been reborn about 400 times, but it's like cinema is stuck in the birth canal.
Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
If I see something that's morally ambiguous or ambiguously beautiful or has some pull in some way, I won't censor myself; I always run towards the light.
I studied writing at NYU. I graduated high school in Nashville and then went to the creative writing program, and in the first year, that's when I wrote 'Kids.'
I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.
A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.
I've just always liked watching people dance. I can't explain it. It used to just make me laugh. Sometimes you can tell a lot about a person by the way they shake their ass.
I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. His leaps were big. There was something really great about his moves.
For certain things, certain audiences, people will laugh. And in other places, there's dead silence. And I enjoy them both. You try to make films where it's never one way - like life.
When I was a kid, I loved Nicholas brothers films. It was like skateboarding. Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding.
Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.
Here's the thing that people don't understand: I don't really care. I've never been a careerist. It's not a strategy. I react to certain characters and story lines and specific mode of filmmaking.
I like working with family and friends and people I admire. All my movies are filled with family members of some capacity. I think it means more when you have a personal relationship with someone.
I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.
You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.
When I'm directing films, I mostly try to create an environment on set that mimics what's in my mind as to the tone and feel of things. I try to create a place where you feel that anything's possible.
I look at WorldstarHipHop in the morning, Bossip, Global Grind, and everything in between, but it's all so quick, I don't even think about it. And I've never been a fan of lyrical or socially conscious rap music.
When I had my first camera - I was a child of the '80s. I remember what it was like reusing the same tapes over and over again, and having really bad quality and images kind of bubbling up from under the surface.