 Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint. |
| I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy. |
| I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films. |
| I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years. |
| It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form. |
| Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here. |
| Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone. |
| No one is asking what happened to all the homeless. No one cares, because it's easier to get on the subway and not be accosted. |
| I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it. |
| The truth will only be told over a career. |
| I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen. |
| Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich. |
| Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size. |
| I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles. |
| Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point. |
| It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance. |
| The worst thing is that you used to be able to show interesting films on campuses. Those places are all gone. |
