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I have a little bit of a pet peeve about how the middle class is depicted in movies. I feel like they tend to be either depicted in a very sentimental way, where everybody has a heart of gold except for the villains you're supposed to hiss at, or there's a sort of indie-style version... When it's done well, it's brilliant, it's 'Blue Velvet.'

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For better or worse, I am as fascinated with human flaws as anything.

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I think I am attracted to that time in life when your worldview is still forming in small ways.

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I feel like I came from a generation where... We didn't have Vietnam. We didn't have World War II. Nothing cultural was thrust upon us to make men out of us, so you're kind of free to not grow up that way if you don't want to.

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I have scripts that I've only shown to animals... and they passed on them.

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Some scenes comes together really quickly, and some scenes are disasters that take forever. But it sort of works itself out over time.

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I can't seem to escape comedy. Whenever I sit down and try to write something serious, it just doesn't work.

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I worry that I would actually hurt my career doing something I didn't enjoy.

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I kind of thought I would only work exclusively in the world of naturalistic comedy drama, but there is this side of me that also loves Hollywood, and I wanted to see what that felt like.

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When I read a script, I always - the first question I ask myself is, 'Is there something that I could bring to it that maybe the next guy wouldn't?' Because I've read a lot of very good scripts and thought there are people who could do this better than I.

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