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I didn't have any set idea of what kind of filmmaker I wanted to be. I knew I wanted to tell stories that meant something to me, but I never said I was going to be the weird, avant-garde guy.
No one really
knows anyone. That's the thing
about relationships - people are
always saying, "I want to know you,
I want to know who you are." But
it is so hard for anyone to even
know themselves. Who I am is
always changing, so how can anyone
else share in that?
I want to make a film about a factory worker.
I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt.
The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.
Yeah, a memory's never finished, if you really think about it.
I see the people that do the real work, and what in a way is really sad is that the people that are often the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better don't really have the ambition and ego to be a leader - they don't see any interest in the rewards, they don't care if their names ever appear in the press, they actually enjoy the process of helping others, they are truly in the moment.
I'd be fine to make movies and have them never come out. But you have to deal with the business side. You can't get too emotionally invested, because again, you've got no control. There's going to be some huge film out that everyone goes to, and it probably won't be mine.
Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.
When you're trying to get laid, everything's great, but once you've been with someone eight years and the future is not finite, you have time to sit and really examine every little thing that irritates you.
See. The whole concept of love is
much more complex. Love's like God
or something: It's everywhere ... I
see it, I feel it, but I don't know
if another person is going to hand
it to me.
It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters ...
I think I'm always so much more happy with books and movies and stuff. I think I get more excited about well-done representations of life than life itself.
- Celine
I always sensed instinctively from the earliest age that I was being lied to.
I can't help but think that at the end of your life, when you look back, there'll be a tone. And that tone will come from the essence of how you live your day to day what you did in that between time because that is really your life.
The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.
I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
You know, that's what I hate: when you start talking like this, like you just pull in these things from the shit you read, and you haven't thought it out for yourself, no bearing on the world around us, and totally unoriginal.
I always think that I'm still this 13-year old boy that doesn't really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I'll really have to do it.
Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
Filmmakers are going to make films, just like painters are going to paint.
As a teenager, I wanted to write novels. By college, it was theater, plays, and then, shortly, it was film.
JESSE
I have a time machine up in my room.
I've come to save you just like I
said I would.
CELINE
Save me from what?
JESSE
Save you from being blinded by all
the little bullshit of life.
There are a million ideas in a world of stories. Humans are storytelling animals. Everything's a story, everyone's got stories, we're perceiving stories, we're interested in stories. So to me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what's the right way to tell a particular story.
People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.
Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.
Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.
If you establish rules and play by them, the audience will buy in.
Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely. - Celine
At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.
There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.
I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.
Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.
You make a film and you can't really pick the way it's put to the public. You control the content, but the way it's marketed, or the poster, or what they're telling the public about the film, it's beyond you. Some people don't even see them, because they think they already know it. That can be frustrating, when something you've done is marketed in a way you think is antithetical to what it is.
I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen.
Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here.
I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years.
It's tough, man. Unless it's a tentpole, sequel, remake, or over-the-top comedy, that's all the studios are even doing. They've kind of admitted they're not in the business of doing anything else. The slightest level of irony or intelligence and, boom, you're out of the league, you're done.