American - Director | July 30, 1960 -
Ulrik Ottinger was the most real and experimental of all the German New Wave directors. She was probably the most out-there, too. She's a fascinating artist in that world.
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I'm a huge Nagisa Oshima fan. He was one of the most radical Japanese directors to come up in the '60s.
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Trump has a lot less than he says he does.
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It's just too late to ban all guns. There are 300 million. We should've done that after the Civil War - that's when we should've taken away guns and defined what militias were. But we didn't do it then, and we can't now.
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I think they should make it a felony to criticise a film product. Particularly my film product. It's anti-American.
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I'd like to see people get sued if they wrote a bad review of my movie. If you can't say something nice, you shouldn't say anything at all.
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My plan B has always been to make a film about people who talk a lot.
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The pop culture tends to go to the lowest denominator, so cinema is in a weird place, due to its mass nature. It's diluted down to very little: simple stories and simple politics.
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'Slacker' is so not about navel-gazing.
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In interviews, I never wanted to play into the myth of, 'Yeah, I was sitting there doing nothing, and then made 'Slacker.'' No. I'd been making shorts, a Super-8 feature, and running a film society. I always try to stress to people that there's a lot of work involved and years of preparation. But no one wants to hear that part.
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I don't want to be nostalgic for some kind of laid-back Austin where nothing was happening.
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There's a long history of people who spent that $300,000 on their first film and weren't quite ready, and then they never did it again 'cause they were out of synch with where they were, and they would never raise that money again.
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