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Ulrik Ottinger was the most real and experimental of all the German New Wave directors. She was probably the most out-there, too. She's a fascinating artist in that world.

~Richard Linklater

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I'm a huge Nagisa Oshima fan. He was one of the most radical Japanese directors to come up in the '60s.

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Trump has a lot less than he says he does.

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It's just too late to ban all guns. There are 300 million. We should've done that after the Civil War - that's when we should've taken away guns and defined what militias were. But we didn't do it then, and we can't now.

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My plan B has always been to make a film about people who talk a lot.

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The film culture has no room for ideas. The literary culture has some room, but not less than they should, and the academic culture has a lot, but there's no way to communicate it in a wide way.

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The pop culture tends to go to the lowest denominator, so cinema is in a weird place, due to its mass nature. It's diluted down to very little: simple stories and simple politics.

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'Slacker' is so not about navel-gazing.

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In interviews, I never wanted to play into the myth of, 'Yeah, I was sitting there doing nothing, and then made 'Slacker.'' No. I'd been making shorts, a Super-8 feature, and running a film society. I always try to stress to people that there's a lot of work involved and years of preparation. But no one wants to hear that part.

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I don't want to be nostalgic for some kind of laid-back Austin where nothing was happening.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: July 30th, 1960

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