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I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book.

~John Sayles

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I made it about a three-day weekend so people wouldn't have to change their clothes a lot. We didn't have an art department; we didn't have a make-up department.

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I probably wouldn't have done as many as I did in one year, which I did when I was trying to raise money.

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I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'

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I take more jobs when I need more money, if I'm investing in films. I take fewer when I don't. Or if something really good comes along, I usually find a way to do a good job on it in the time that I've got.

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I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.

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I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.

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If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.

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In a movie you have all these logistical problems; all these practical problems. But you're also going to have people come who can do things that you can't do, and you get to direct their talents.

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Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: September 28th, 1950

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