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


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


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


Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.


The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone.


It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.


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.


I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.


I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.


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


It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.


I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.


I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.


Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.


Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.


Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.


I want to make a film about a factory worker.


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


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


Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.