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I'm A Big Fan Of Revenge, I Think [sweeney Todd] It's A Story Of A Man Who Clearly Has Obsessions To Avenge The Horror That Happened To Him.
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I'm A Big Fan Of Revenge, I Think [sweeney Todd] It's A Story Of A Man Who Clearly Has Obsessions To Avenge The Horror That Happened To Him.

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Pants
Feathers
I Was Ecstatic They Re-named 'french Fries' As 'freedom Fries'. Grown Men And Women In Positions Of Power In The U.s. Government Showing Themselves As Idiots.
Men
Position Of Power
Ecstatic Love
If They Let Me Choose Between You And The Dog, I'll Choose The Dog.
Dog
Let Me
Ifs
The Wardrobe Guy [of Blow] Was A Genius. He Was So Tapped Into That Period And He Brought Me The Ugliest Things I'd Ever Seen And Then They Were Somehow Beautiful.
Beautiful
Blow
Guy
That Pipe, Just So Happens To Lead To The Room Where I Make The Most Delicious Flavored Chocolate Covered Fudge." Then He Will Be Made Into Strawberry Flavoered Chocolate Covered Fudge, They'll Be Selling Him By The Pound, All Over The World!" No, I Wouldn't Allow It. The Taste Would Be Terrible. Can You Imagine Augustus Flavored Chocolate Covered Gloop? Ew. No One Would Buy It.
Chocolate
Would Be
Fudge
I'd Never Even Sung In The Shower, I'm Too Mortified. But Once I Got Over The Initial Fear It Was Kind Of Enjoyable. Sondheim's Melodies And Lyrics Are A Real Pleasure To Tromp Around In, It's Really Beautiful Stuff.
Beautiful
Real
Stuff
If There's Any Message To My Work, It Is Ultimately That It's Ok To Be Different, That It's Good To Be Different, That We Should Question Ourselves Before We Pass Judgment On Someone Who Looks Different, Behaves Different, Talks Different, Is A Different Color.
Inspirational
Color
Being Different
Growing Old Is Unavoidable, But Never Growing Up Is Possible. I Believe You Can Retain Certain Things From Your Childhood If You Protect Them - Certain Traits, Certain Places Where You Don’t Let The World Go.
Growing Up
Believe
Childhood
It's A Great Honor That Something That You Took Part In Creating Becomes This Forever Object.
Creating
Forever
Honor
The Problem Is That Everybody Treats Teenagers Like They're Stupid.
Teenager
Stupid
Problem
I Am Doing Things That Are True To Me. The Only Thing I Have A Problem With Is Being Labeled.
Inspirational
Problem
Personality Types
I Went Through Various Stages In My Childhood, As We All Do, Various Stages Of Obsessions With People And Things. And I Did. I Wanted To Be The First White Harlem Globetrotter.
White
People
Childhood
I'm Attracted To The Extreme Light And The Extreme Dark. I'm Interested In The Human Condition And What Makes People Tick. I'm Interested In The Things People Try To Hide.
Life
Dark
Light
I Really Approached The Film As If It Was A White Big Piece Of Paper And I Was Going To Draw A Picture On It. And Whether That Picture Was Good Or Bad, Whatever People Thought Of It, What They Could Never Take Away Was That It Was My Picture.
White
People
Pieces
Jesus, Music Has Always Been My First Love. I Use Music In My Work Because It's The Fastest Way To An Emotional Place. You Hear A Song, And That Memory Comes Right Back-- You're There... Making Music Is Immediate, And It's All About You. If You're Playing Guitar, The Feeling Comes Through-- The Way You Bend The Note, The Intensity With Which You Hit The Strings. With Making Films, Although It's Real Emotion, It's False Emotion. You're Lying.
Song
Jesus
Memories
There Are Guys, The Weekenders, Who Can Go Out And Get Loaded And They're Having Fun And Partying - Which Is A Term I Deplore, Partying - And It's All Recreational And They're Having A Ball. I Never Had That. It Was Never About Recreation. Not. Ever. That Was Never My Motivation. Not Once!
Fun
Motivation
Party
Things Go Wrong For Me, All The Time, With Technology. I'm Not Familiar Enough With It, And I'm Too Old School A Brain To Be Able To Figure It Out. I'm Dumb. Anything That I Have To Attack With My Thumbs, For Any Period Of Time, Makes Me Feel Stupid. So, I Try To Avoid It, As Much As Possible, To Protect My Thumbs.
Stupid
School
Technology
Obviously, Technology Is Moving And Reshaping Itself, Radically, Every Day. We're All Capable Of Answering That Question Within Ourselves. Would You Do It For The Person That You Love? Would You Be Married To A Hard Drive, Essentially?
Moving
Technology
Married
Ironically, It Was Only Maybe A Year Prior To Tim Calling I Had Re-read Alice In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass, And What I Took Away From It Was These Very Strange, Little Cryptic Nuggets That He'd Thrown In There.
Glasses
Years
Littles
I Hope Some Day To Make You All A Cup Of Coffee. Alright, Peace.
Coffee
Speech
Cups
Even When You're Down And Blue, Just Remember That Someone Out There Loves You, Even If You Don't Know It And Even If You Haven't Yet Met Them. There's Someone Out There Waiting For You, Remember That And Keep Faith. You'll Get There.
Love You
Romantic Love
Blue
I Don't Like Watching Myself In The Movies Because I Don't Like Being Aware Of The Product. I Like The Process. I Enjoy That.
Process
Enjoy
Products
I Realized That It Was Great To Have A Job, But It Didn't Have Anything Remotely To Do With What I Was Striving For, So Why Was I Doing It?
Jobs
Strive
I Realized
And Because Technology Is Moving So Rapidly, Things Become Obsolete Very, Very Quickly. In 15 Years Time, Will Caster Is Probably Going To Be In Some Weird Room In Vegas Where People Are Plugging Quarters Into Him. Who Has A Mini-disc Of A Laser Disc Player? It's Over!
Moving
Technology
Player
Yeah, In Every Film That I've Been Lucky Enough To Do With Tim, There's Always Some Form Of Torture, And The Nails Were Tim's Idea. They Were The Length Of The Fingers And Stuff, But It Was Okay Because I Had A Troop Of People Who Would Help Me Go To The Bathroom. They Had To Have Treatment Afterwards But They're Okay Now. That Is True.
Ideas
People
Nails
Barrie And The Wonderful Characters He Created, Lewis Carroll, Even French Literature, Like Baudelaire Or Over In The States, Poe, You Open Those Books, You Open The Flowers Of Evil And Begin To Read. If It Were Written Today, You'd Be Absolutely Stupefied By The Work. It's This Incredible Period Where The Work Is Timeless, Ageless. So Yeah, I Just Love All Those Guys. It's My Deep Passion In Those Great 19th Century Writers.
Flower
Book
Character
Marriage Can Be Whatever You Define It As. For Example, I Don't Feel Like I Need A Piece Of Paper That Says I Own Her And She Owns Me. I Think Signing A Piece Of Paper Doesn't Mean Anything In The Eyes Of God Or In The Eyes Of People. The Thing Is, If You Are Together And You Love Each Other And Are Good To Each Other, Make Babies And All That, For All Intents And Purposes You Are Married.
Baby
Mean
Eye
Attention Is A Strange Sort Of Being, Anyway, The Idea Of Attention If Someone Appreciates Your Work. It's Always Nice That Someone Appreciates Your Work.
Nice
Ideas
Appreciate
I'm Not Blockbuster Boy.
Boys
Blockbuster
I Don't Drink Hard Liquor Anymore, But I Sometimes Order Lagavulin Just For The Smell. It's So Good. It's Unbelievable.
Order
Smell
Alcohol
There Is Nothing On Earth That Could Ever Make Me Want To Relive Certain Years Of My Life When I Was Young.
Years
Earth
Want
If You Fall In Love With 2 People At Once Choose The Second One Because If You Truly Loved The First One You Never Would Have Fell In Love With The Second One
Spiritual
Falling In Love
People
It's Good To Experience Hollywood In Short Bursts, I Guess. Little Snippets. I Don't Think I Can Handle Being Here All The Time, It's Pretty Nutty.
Thinking
Hollywood
Littles
I Condition Myself To Believe That Once The Scene Is Done, Once The Movie Is Done, My Job Is Done, And Whatever Happens After That Is None Of My Business.
Jobs
Believe
Done
When You Play A Character That Exists Or Existed, There's A Stronger Responsibility That You Have. You Owe That Person And Then You Owe The Family, You Owe History, You Owe The Victims, The Victims' Families.
Character
Responsibility
Play
I've Been Told I Smell Good. I Don't Look Like I Smell Good.
Smell
Looks
I Love People. And When You Love People That Much That You're Disappointed In Them Every Day, That Love Can Turn To Hate In A Flash Of A Second.
Hate
People
Flash
I Found The Evil In Myself A Long Time Ago, And I've Accepted It. We're Old Friends.
Long
Evil
Old Friends
I'd Just Thank The People Out There Who Have Been With My Up-and-down, Weird-road, Strange Career And Supported Me And Stuck With Me All These Years. I Mean, They're My Boss. That's What Keeps Me Working.
Mean
Years
Careers
I Can't Stand Not Being Able To Joke Around On Set, So I Have To.
Able
Jokes
I Can
I Love The Idea Of Changing My Look. I Think One Owes It To The Audience, To Go Out There And Give Them Something Different Each Time, So As Not To Bore Them To Death.
Thinking
Ideas
Giving
I Was Always A Fan Of The Great Old Spaghetti Westerns, The Sergio Leone Films. But The One That Always Sticks With Me, That I Just Thought Was Brilliant And Perfect Is "cat Ballou." Lee Marvin In "cat Ballou."
Cat
Perfect
Fans
There Come A Time, When Good Man Must Wear Mask.
Men
Good Man
Lone Ranger
There Were So Many Great Teachers That Had So Much To Offer. The Idea Of Being Rigid, Why Would You Do That? People Have Their Things, But Why Be Rigid With Any Education When You Can Take Things From Here And Take Things From There?
Teacher
Ideas
People
The Quality Of Life Is So Different In France. There Is The Possibility Of Living A Simple Life. I Would Never Contemplate Raising My Daughter In La. I Would Never Raise Any Child There.
Daughter
Mother
Children
Every Filmmaker's Different, Every Filmmaker Has A Different Approach.
Different
Filmmaker
Approach
At Last My Arm Is Completee Again Xd
Arms
Lasts
I Don't Want To Run Around And Look At A Shot Through A Monitor. That Doesn't Improve What I'm Trying To Do. I Figure, Once I've Done My Job, It's None Of My Business.
Running
Jobs
Trying
I Always Felt That If You're Not Trying Something Different Each Time Out Of The Gate, You're Being Safe, And You Don't Ever Want To Find That Place Of Safety. I Like That, Each Time, Before I Even Go In Front Of The Cameras, The Studio's Reaction Will Be Fear.
Safety
Trying
Cameras
I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.
Beautiful
Thinking
Guitar
If It's Called A Selfie, Why Are There People In It?
People
Ifs
If There's A Message To Pass To People, I'd Say That It's Normal To Be Different From Others, It's Good To Differ From One Another, And We'd Better Look At Ourselves First Before We Start Criticising Someone Who Looks, Acts, Speaks Different Or Has A Different Skin Colour. I'd Like To Continue, Even At A Minimal Level, What John Lennon Had Started. If I Could Do As Much As A Bit Of What He Did, If I Could Contribute To The Elimination Of Hatred Among Us, That Would Be A Great Deal.
People
Hatred
Skins
For A Long Time I Tried To Manage An Honesty And Openness About My Personal Life Because I’m Human And I’m Normal – Well, Semi-normal.
Honesty
Long
Normal
My Experience With Sondheim Has Been Nothing But Glorious, Especially For A Guy Who Doesn't Sing.
Guy
Sondheim
Glorious
Any Character That You Come Up With Or Create Is A Piece Of You. You're Putting Yourself Into That Character, But There's The Guise Of The Character. So There's A Certain Amount Of Safety In The Character, Where You Feel More Safe Being The Character Than You Do Being Just You
Character
Safety
Pieces
One Thing That's Been A Great, Uplifting Experience Through All This Is, Since The First "pirates" [movie], The People Who've Gone To See The Films, The Audience Members. You Meet People On The Street - Whether They're 5, 25, 65 Or 85 - They've All Had The Same Experience, And They've All Enjoyed It. So That's What Keeps Me Moving Forward In This Crazy Process.
Uplifting
Crazy
Moving
My Recipe For Success Is Chance, Basically. Just Luck. It's A Miracle That People Still Hire Me After Some Of The Stuff I've Gotten Away With. Honestly!
People
Miracle
Luck
Puberty Was Very Vague. I Literally Locked Myself In A Room And Played Guitar.
Inspirational
Guitar
Rooms
Laugh As Much As You Breathe And Love As Long As You Live.
Love
Inspirational
Life
While They'd Be Setting Up Shots, Suddenly, There Were 17 Make-up Chicks, Just Listening To Marlon Telling These Amazing Stories That Were Probably Lies. He Was A Fascinating Individual. I Learned A Lot From Him.
Lying
Listening
Stories
I'm Not Sure I'm Adult Yet.
Adults
Not Sure
I Certainly Had This Fascination With Monsters And Vampires As Did Tim And Whatever This Darkness, This Mystery, This Intrigue. And Then, As You Get Older, You Recognize The Erotic Nature Of The Vampire And The Idea Of The Undead.
Ideas
Darkness
Erotic
I'm Not A Great Pothead Or Anything Like That... But Weed Is Much, Much Less Dangerous Than Alcohol.
Weed
Alcohol
Potheads
I Try To Stay In A Constant State Of Confusion Just Because Of The Expression It Leaves On My Face.
Funny
Confused
Expression
When You Realize You're Essentially You're God, There Ain't Nothing On Earth More Powerful Than You, You Can Do Anything You Want.
Powerful
Earth
Want
I Don't Pretend To Be Captain Weird. I Just Do What I Do.
Captains
People Say I Make Strange Choices, But They're Not Strange For Me. My Sickness Is That I'm Fascinated By Human Behavior, By What's Underneath The Surface, By The Worlds Inside People.
Inspirational
People
Choices
If I Ever Thought Of Directing Again, I Mean - I Don't Know, Even The Idea Of Directing A Film Is A Strange One For Me, Because I Feel Kind Of Anti Mathematics In A Way In That Sense. Anti - I Don't Like When Things Make Sense, I Prefer If They Don't, So If I Made A Film, It Wouldn't Make Any Sense And No One Would See It. So Maybe I'll Just Make Little Films At Home With My Phone, Never To Be Released.
Home
Mean
Phones
You Gotta Be Careful: Don't Say A Word To Nobody About Nothing Anytime Ever.
Be Careful
Careful
They Tell You To Be Careful Because Maybe You Don't Want To Meet Your Heroes. I've Met Pretty Much Every One, And I've Never Been Let Down.
Hero
Want
Let Down
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