David Gordon Green Quotes

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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.

  David Gordon Green

  Discipline, People, Different

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  David Gordon Green

  New Inventions, Projects, Industry

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I'm not really worried about people's perception of what I do, or people's analysis of why I make the decisions I make. I wake up every day with a new interest and a desire for an education.

  David Gordon Green

  Decision, Perception, Desire

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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.

  David Gordon Green

  Men, Thinking, Excited

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  David Gordon Green

  Children, Animal, Creating

  Source: collider.com

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• I really strongly feel that when you approach a drama, you have to approach it with energy, honesty, sincerity, and absolute commitment, or don't do it.

  David Gordon Green

  Honesty, Drama, Commitment

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've always had great independence on everything I've done. Nobody's ever told me not to do anything.

  David Gordon Green

  Independence, Done

  "David Gordon Green and Emile Hirsch on Sundance and Feeling Horny". Interview with Mina Hochberg, www.vulture.com. January 22, 2013.

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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.

  David Gordon Green

  Growing Up, Directors, Film

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  David Gordon Green

  Crowds, Sometimes, Studios

  "David Gordon Green and Emile Hirsch on Sundance and Feeling Horny". Interview with Mina Hochberg, www.vulture.com. January 22, 2013.

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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.

  David Gordon Green

  Skills, Icons, Saws

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes you'll have great actors who aren't comfortable with improvising. Which can get pretty frustrating. But every actor's coming from a different place and they have their own strengths and weaknesses and your job is to sell them as two people in the same world. Some of them have to have their hands held and some I just let loose entirely.

  David Gordon Green

  Jobs, Hands, Two

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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.

  David Gordon Green

  Running, Insecurity, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• Everybody's got their tools or their instruments, and it's fun to see how people expose themselves to their profession or their profession becomes who they are.

  David Gordon Green

  Fun, People, Tools

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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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.

  David Gordon Green

  Real, Opportunity, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• I love animals. With animals you never know what you're getting. Everybody says don't mess with animals and little kids in movies but those are the funniest things because you can't be in control. I like to lose control as a director.

  David Gordon Green

  Kids, Animal, Directors

  Source: www.geekscape.net

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• The difference between this film [Your highness] and Pineapple Express was pretty much in the logistics of the technical ambition of the movie, and the size and scope of the movie. Pineapple Express was a great success, and that was something that we wanted to capitalize on, but we wanted this movie to be bigger, more adventuresome, bring a bigger audience to the movie, and challenge ourselves to do something new.

  David Gordon Green

  Ambition, Differences, Challenges

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• Sometimes an actor doesn't sell an idea 100 percent. It just sounds like something that's coming out of their head. You can hear the gears whirring and they're trying to think of what the smart approach is to getting a line across.

  David Gordon Green

  Smart, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with George Ducker, believermag.com. November 1, 2006.

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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.

  David Gordon Green

  Real, Opportunity, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• The people that I associate myself with are people that are looking to make a good product because it's going to benefit them and it's going to help launch their careers.

  David Gordon Green

  Careers, People, Benefits

  Interview with George Ducker, believermag.com. November 1, 2006.

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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.

  David Gordon Green

  Beautiful, Tools, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• We were in production on a movie called All the Real Girls, which filmed in the Fall of 2001, and we really discovered who Danny McBride was, as an actor. When I say we, I mean me and a crew and a small audience that would hit the art house. He'd never acted before, and it was a really refreshing, eye-opening experience to watch him unleash, in front of the camera, all this comedic potential that we knew he had, as a human being and as the guy doing keg-stands at the party.

  David Gordon Green

  Girl, Art, Real

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  David Gordon Green

  Years, Ideas, Yesterday

  Interview with George Ducker, believermag.com. November 1, 2006.

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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.

  David Gordon Green

  Jobs, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I always cast people with a sense of humor because people that are super serious don't understand when I ask them to eat a booger it's not necessarily about that. It's about something more. It's about inviting a little bit of absurdity into the process and humanity into the process. Making sure that no matter who we are and what sort of pedestal or glamorous lighting we're under, we're all eating boogers man.

  David Gordon Green

  Men, People, Humanity

  "SXSW Interview: Nicolas Cage, David Gordon Green, and Tye Sheridan for ‘Joe’". www.geekscape.net. April 10, 2014.

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• I live part-time in a cabin in Colorado up in the mountains and part-time on a ranch in central Texas - but do I really know how to go brand a cow, or do I really know how to go rappelling down a cliff? No. I do the recreational, half-assed version of all these manly activities and then try to keep that kind of Zen masculinity, like, "I'm a man of nature."

  David Gordon Green

  Men, Texas, Trying

  Source: www.vulture.com

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