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Back in the ’70s, like one of my favorite movies ever was ‘The Bad News Bears’, and that was a kids’ movie, but I don’t think of it that way. I think of it as just a great movie because Walter Matthau was so funny and so harsh with those kids.

It is odd there are many movies with many men. But generally movies have one woman, or maybe the older woman and the younger girl.

I think movies are good for getting into dream states or exploring weird alternate states of thinking.

I’m not looking to lose anything. I’m looking to continue making movies.

I grew up in L.A., and I don’t think I’ve seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.

The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.

I love doing serious movies for adults.

Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies – as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater.

Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

I’m intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they’re done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people’s opinions. It’s difficult to have an undistilled vision.