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I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.
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I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first.
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I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.
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In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios.
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I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer.
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Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.
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My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.
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I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.
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I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.
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It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.
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As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.
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If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.
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And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it's got a story that's compelling and there's enough money to make the picture.
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But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.
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New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.
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