The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two funniest guys I've ever met in my life.
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But I have come firmly to believe that the punishment of drug offenders is really bad in our country. It's cockeyed.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
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I grew up in Long Island and went to school in upstate New York. Everyone gravitates towards big city characters. But I'm drawn towards antiheroes, not your normal kind of leading me.
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I mean look, the thing about movie making and criticism and producing movies now, everyone compares everything to something else.
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I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a prince.
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What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L. A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff.
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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