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 GreenSometimes 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 GreenI 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 GreenEvery new project I do is a new invention of myself and reinvigorates me as to why I love the industry.
David Gordon GreenWhen you say "Holy Man", I immediately think of Eddie Murphy's finest hour. If it's anything comparable, I'm excited.
David Gordon GreenThe 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 GreenSometimes 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