I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films.
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His gifts are now more social than sexual. He's this society walker who has his lady friends, and a boyfriend on the side.
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It's great when somebody comes at you and says, 'We have a big serious movie and we want to hire you because you're a serious person'. Particularly in today's world, when you spend so much of your time pretending that you're not.
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The problem with The Exorcist was that I wasn't holding any cards. They paid me for the movie, so they own the movie. It's like if you made this chair and I buy it from you. You want me to sit on the chair, and I want to put it in my fireplace. What are you gonna do Time to go off and make another chair.
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Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.
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