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I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
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I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.
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Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
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I like Ken Loach, Mike Leigh. These are the British filmmakers who haven't sold out, who haven't got hired by Hollywood.
Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.
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It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.
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Just like you can't stop filmmakers. The films will get made, somehow, some way, no matter what's going on, and worldwide.
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.