The media in America has become so cowed and compromised.

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

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

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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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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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When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories.

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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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Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

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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 always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.

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