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A lot of my best friends are the best person for the job in a film, but sometimes being a filmmaker I'll give a buddy a chance to prove himself. Other times I want to go with a tried-and-true person. It can absolutely cause problems.

David Gordon Green

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David Gordon Green
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: April 9
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A lot of people inspire me. I'm a huge movie buff. From studying and watching movies, over and over again, directly influential are Terrence Malik and his naturalism, Robert Altman and his exploration of improvisation, and Judd Apatow, in terms of his comedic process.
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Sometimes in the studio movies I've been working in, you'll put a joke in a movie because the crowd loves it - not because I love it.
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When you see somebody actually be able to channel that into an accessible, beautiful tool, you start to see the craftsman behind it.
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I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply a lot of the skills of the '70s icons that I really admire to a contemporary, commercial movie.
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When you say Holy Man, I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited.
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Every new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.
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When I work on something I'm not excited about or not as proud of it as I'd like to be, then I try to work even harder to make the next one and address those insecurities, I tackle insecurities rather than run from them.
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I've protected my protracted period of infancy. For many years. And I have no desire to become an adult.
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With Hollywood you're yesterday's news if you get a flop at the box office. So you might as well be braced to have something else to do that's interesting. Have something lined up to keep your stories fulfilled, and your ideas, because if you're just cranking out movies three times a year.
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It's been an obsession of various genres, disciplines, and aspects and elements of movie-making. It's always been something that I've really aspired to, so doing something new and different, reinventing myself and working with new people is just the passport to the amazing world that is the movies.
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I never really had a real career trajectory idea. I just like a lot of different kind of movies, I wanna make a lot of different kind of movies, and to some degree you follow opportunity and to the other degree you have to create your own opportunity.
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Sundance [festival] is all your Hollywood buds and buddies and rolling out and high-fiving and Hell, yeah. Here comes the movie, and in Venice, it's very elegant, and respectful...It's decadence. It's such a fun way to formalize a movie that is for us a down-and-dirty, gritty movie. And to see it with the red carpet, and rolling up in a Masera
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It is better to develop ideas with friends rather than the usual route of having a great idea and throwing it out into a production, and being surrounded by professionals who've been doing their jobs for years.
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I don't let technology and mechanics hinder me from a good time. During one of a film premiere there was a party in the other room I needed to get to it, so I got out. I escaped. Sometimes you do what you can, you'll turn on your best John Maclean and get to it.
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Fortunately, working with Universal was just a real opportunity of a supportive entity, who not only financially backed and distributed the movie, but creatively collaborated with us, and gave us ideas and creative ways to make a movie that was budgetarily responsible.
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I'm not a director that's about precision and control and perfection, I'm about creating an atmosphere that's organic and interesting and then letting people loose, and for that there's no greater actor or performer than children. Animals are maybe a close runner-up.
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I've always had great independence on everything I've done. Nobody's ever told me not to do anything.
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I've never wanted to be a fireman, in my life. I've never really wanted to grow up and be anything other than a film director.
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