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- "A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't ..."
- "All actors are different. Nicholas Ray said to me: "There is no one way to ..."
- "Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like ..."
- "Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon ..."
- "Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy. "
- "Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like ..."
- "Dogme 95 owes some debt to the purity of so-called punk rock. "
- "Hopefully, if not it's not working right. I'm like a navigator and I try to ..."
- "I also love The Clash because they were the opposite, they were into synthesis in ..."
- "I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say ..."
- "I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they ..."
- "I did not expect Dead Man to be a commercial success. But I wanted it ..."
- "I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an ..."
- "I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I ..."
- "I didn't go to classes there, but ended up at the Cinematheque, and there it ..."
- "I didn't have any money and I didn't know what to do with myself, and ..."
- "I don't know. I like poetry. Dammit, I like poetry; anyone got a problem with ..."
- "I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball ..."
- "I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out ..."
- "I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and ..."
- "I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and ..."
- "I love rehearsing because in rehearsals there are no mistakes, nothing is wrong, some things ..."
- "I start with actors that I know personally or I know their work, and there ..."
- "I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues. "
- "I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the ..."
- "I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way. "
- "I think that Dante was hip-hop culture because he wrote in vernacular Italian, and at ..."
- "I wanted to make an Indian character who wasn't either a) the savage that must ..."
- "I was interested formally from literature and musical structures. I don't remember exactly where it ..."
- "I was very lucky and eventually showed the film, got some good responses, and some ..."
- "I was writing prose poems, but they were starting to echo not film scripts, but ..."
- "I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked ..."
- "I'm not a director who says, "Say your line, hit your mark", that's not my ..."
- "I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New ..."
- "If you go into a bar in most places in America and even say the ..."
- "If you think about taking a taxi, it's something insignificant in your daily life; in ..."
- "In Akron, Ohio there wasn't a real variety of films, but when I was a ..."
- "In Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, there's a quote from Agakurai, a Japanese ..."
- "In real life, if you're at a table with four people, you don't know which ..."
- "Instead of sending it to the school for tuition, they sent it directly to me, ..."
- "It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early ..."
- "It was not about trying to be famous or have a career, or be a ..."
- "Language can be abstracted, language can be used as a very beautiful code in poetry, ..."
- "Later, NYU started using my name in ads for the school and I said in ..."
- "Laughter is good for your spirit and Oscar Wilde said: "Life is far too important ..."
- "Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and ..."
- "So what you do is work with each actor individually to find out "How can ..."
- "That period was really, really important, because there were a lot of different artists - ..."
- "The character of John Lurie is made very human by the fact that he cannot ..."
- "The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when ..."
- "To me, John Lurie's character is not non-emotional. He tries to be not emotional, he ..."
- "What I did was I completed the half-hour film, but before really showing it, I ..."
- "When I left Ohio when I was 17 and ended up in New York and ..."
- "Wim Wenders gave me some unexposed film material that was left over from and I ..."
