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I mean, I think I'm pretty sentimental.

Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball.

I had wanted to do a comedy.

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.

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.

When you get to be 23, 24 or 25, you start to freeze up and become an adult.

Sometimes I wish I had never met you, because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.

I'm usually trying to react to what the actors are coming up with. And then the environment, and then the story.

I'm a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn't pay off.

I was once a shameless, full-time dope fiend.

Sometimes getting upset with yourself is necessary when you face the truth.

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.

Well, I want to do everything in sort of a documentary style, ever since I started in the '80s.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.

Yeah, I try to be really calm.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

It's when you start doing things for free, that you start to grow wings.

No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.

I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.

Casting the locals is my primary concern because all the other things you assume will be manageable.

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.

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.

I think that in some cases, I've made films that have a sentimental quality, at least as part of the film.

Everything's changing so fast that it's sometimes hard to keep up.

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.

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.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

Usually people just hire me.

I used to take photographs just to remember people.

Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.

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.

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.

Free time keeps me going.

I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.

The media has gone through lots of things that make it a less foreign thing to have your lead character be gay.

My department is to get actors to do stuff.

Movement provides life's questions and life's answers simultaneously.

There's always a risk if you don't do things the way you've done things before.