American Movie
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:06:00
from a guy down the street...
:06:03
and the focus was terrible,
but instant filmmaker.

:06:06
I'll tell you why films
fail or succeed.

:06:10
I'm going to tell you
about this one, Northwestern.

:06:13
A regular feature film shot
on black-and-white negative.

:06:16
It's gonna look beautiful.
:06:22
There's your secondary lead right there.
What do you think about that?

:06:26
- You have funding? Everything covered?
- Yeah.

:06:29
You're gonna be in a drive-in
with an umbrella of gray over you.

:06:34
You'll be in a junkyard with thousands
of rusted memories laying there.

:06:39
You'll be among the company
of filmmakers this time...

:06:43
but you'll have something under your
belt besides what you throw in the wash.

:06:48
He's like, "Ken, I'm making a movie.
:06:51
Will you star in it?"
I said, "Of course, I will."

:06:55
So we went to Valhalla Cemetery...
:06:57
and shot our first super-8 film.
:07:01
It was called The More the Scarier.
:07:03
It was-- I was 11 years old
at the time.

:07:08
He was 14.
:07:11
I was in The More the Scarier III.
:07:16
What was that about?
:07:18
That was about--
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We were riding into a cemetery...
:07:23
in the back of a truck,
and we were drinking vodka...

:07:27
and I was playing my guitar.
:07:29
And it's a silent film,
and then we go out into the woods...

:07:34
and there's this mystery killer
that's killing all of us.

:07:44
This is where the chick, Dawn,
runs her haunted house, right?

:07:48
But it's got to have
some killer interiors, right?

:07:51
'Cause you don't know too many people
running haunted houses, right?

:07:55
In films, it's ad executives
or whatever else the hell they do.

:07:58
But this chick is going to be running,
working, doing a haunted house...


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