American - Director | July 7, 1957 -
The American dream tells you that you'll have success if you work hard enough, and we have some concerns about that fallacy. Hopefully, the characters in our films learn to redefine success.
Valerie Faris
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I think of music videos as commercials for songs.
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There's something about somebody's first screenplay: it's like their whole life experience has kind of been bottled into it. They bring so much richness to it. And not that they won't do that for their next script, but there is something about their first experience and the time that it's been floating in their head.
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It's hard to get the right elements together, get the right cast, get them at the time you need them, get the script completely there, and get the right budget.
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There's an amazing movie called 'Los Angeles Plays Itself.'
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Comedy writing is the hardest, and yet there's so much that's relatable in it.
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Some scripts you feel like everything is precious.
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I don't watch 'MTV'. Our sons watch 'Jersey Shore' sometimes. I walk through the room, and I get disgusted, and I leave, and I give them a hard time about it.
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Like 'TRL' was kind of fun - Oh, there's a new video!
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Our marriage has survived because we do things we love.
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When you study a character, when you're making a film, you want to understand the character: like, what makes them tick?
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We were alive during the 'Battle of the Sexes', but that story hadn't really been told.
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