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(7 votes)   Well that's the point: People don't normally take away things from films anymore. You go and see a $100 million film, half an hour later, your biggest concern is what are you going to be eating.

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(5 votes)   Acting, directing and producing in a film when you have no budget and only nineteen days makes it extremely, extremely difficult.

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(5 votes)   Just trying to get a film made which is always difficult no matter what kind of a budget you have. Not having a budget makes it even more difficult. Having nineteen days and no budget makes it extremely difficult.

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(5 votes)   That's what Hollywood films do. They tell you this is a tender moment. Now we want you to cry. I refuse to manipulate the audience that way.

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(5 votes)   The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.

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(5 votes)   You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

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(4 votes)   But I did on projects that I produced, that I directed, that I acted in because it was important. I want to be a filmmaker. I don't want to be an actor who directs, I want to be a director. I want to be a filmmaker. So that's a big difference.

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(4 votes)   Ever since I've left, I've been doing nothing but this film and traveling, promoting and doing festivals. So the good thing is that I'm not sitting around pining over whether I made the right choice in leaving. I'm moving and grooving.

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(4 votes)   I don't see me doing $100 million films because $100 million films, the very nature of them, you need to offend as few people as possible just to make your money back.

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(4 votes)   It's my company and I believe in the company that's why I started it.

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(4 votes)   Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat.

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(3 votes)   I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

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(3 votes)   I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.

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(6 votes)   But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.

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(5 votes)   Art should offend people because art should challenge people.

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