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When I went to university, I finally got exposed to European films, and they had a strong impact on me. I felt those films had a lot of things to say that weren't getting expressed in the films I was used to seeing. ”
I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.' ”
Now that we're poisoned with the culture of superheroes, I think it's important to laugh about it. ”
It's different if you're self-fed by a culture such as the U.S. where it's so rich, you don't have to look outside. Everything's already there. But when you grow up in the desert, you have to be looking all over for inspiration. ”
Cinema is an infinite medium, so we should take advantage of it, I think. ”
Nobody cares about your autograph. There are cameras everywhere, and there are media outlets for them to 'file their story'. ”
Twitter and Tumblr and Vine and Instagram and Facebook and Myspace, all these things are social media tools that we were all told we had to have, and what we're realizing is that, no you don't! No you don't. ”
I loathe and despise the media in a way I did not think possible. ”
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. ”
This country is not built on one culture alone. We all make up this industry. ”