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I'd always want to decorate my bedroom. I needed visuals and to be stimulated by things. I'm still like that. It's the way I see the world.

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Always, Still, Decorate, Stimulated

I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey.

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Play, Here, Tonight, Nicholson

I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was 'The Wizard of Oz' and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that - it still seems freaky.

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Think, I Remember, Still, Wizard Of Oz

Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.

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Average, About, Salem, Witch

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

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Had, Almost, Alice, Steven

You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

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Generation, New, Discovering, Joke

By the time we got to MGM, and Lions Gate the movie was done there was nothing else to say. It was done. Just as at Universal, it was art by committee.

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Art, Committee, By The Time, MGM

Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.

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Country, Next, Screwed, Cross Country

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

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Everybody, Satisfy, No Point

I wanted it to be like a high quality, drive-in movie.

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Movie, High, Wanted, High Quality

NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on MTV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.

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Death, Other, Means, Theaters

Probably the biggest thing that surprises people is that I am obsessed with hockey. I grew up in the Boston area so I am obsessed with hockey since I was a little kid.

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Hockey, Boston, Area, Surprises

I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.

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Some, Movie, Affect, Bedroom

I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad.

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Think, I Think, Though, Escapist

I don't know that I have a fascination with witches per se - well, maybe I just have a fascination with everything that's weird.

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Weird, Maybe, Fascination, Witches

You know... the only person I really had to please after a point was the MPAA. Because Lions' Gate was like, hey, whatever you can get away with is fine, we don't care.

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Away, Like, Had, Gate

The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name.

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Big, Indie, Albums, Spears

I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.

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Over, Made, Had, Crossed

Every time I start the next movie, it's as exciting as the first time.

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Next, Movie, First Time, Every Time

I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

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Admire, Back, Like, Cinematography

Once you feel like you're being dictated by other people's expectations, it usually backfires.

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Other, Like, Once, Dictated

My advice: Don't quit. When I got to New York City, I lived so far below the poverty line, because I didn't give in and get a job at 7-Eleven. I think you can thrive in misery.

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City, I Think, 7-Eleven, Thrive

When I watch a movie, I don't make a sound or move. The more I'm into the movie, the more bored I look.

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More, Movie, Move, Bored

The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things... I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't.

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Bad, Feel, Used, Not Caring

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

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Lazy, Cold, Come, Pampered

I really just do what I like. I don't understand what the general public likes sometimes.

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Like, General, Public, General Public

I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.

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Movie, Like, Seen, Aiming

As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.

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Kind, Big, Billy, As Far As

The hardest part was convincing people that I was serious. The people were like 'you want to do this again'?

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Like, Part, Convincing, Hardest Part

There are so many projects that don't happen, just sometimes they don't get announced, so no one ever knows about them and you don't have to talk about them.

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Sometimes, Happen, Projects, Announced

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