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You don't have to hear their opinions.
They're there though.

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They're here as decent
human beings, finally.

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Here you are equal.
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Parents be coming after you because
you have a movie camera in one hand...

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and a beer in the other, man,
they wouldn't tolerate--

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I mean, that was and is
the joy of life.

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That wasn't tolerated, man,
when you were 14, 15 years old.

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They'd start coming after you...
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so you'd get out into the cemetery
with your beer and your film camera...

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and you were one with the world
and equal with the world.

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- It was a vast work field.
- He'd always say...

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he was gonna become a millionaire
and all of us would be jealous of him.

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It didn't really make us
envious of him.

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It just made-- at least me, anyway--
just feel kinda sorry for him...

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pity him, that he felt that way.
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Honestly, I thought he was gonna grow up
to be a stalker or serial killer...

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or do something where he would try
to plan someone's death.

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And, unfortunately, sometimes
I had the idea that it might be mine.

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What were the films that influenced you
most when you were younger?

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Dawn of the Dead, Night of the Living
Dead and Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

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- What about those films influenced you?
- Oh, it's simple.

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Dawn of the Dead seemed more
realistic than Hollywood films.

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There was gray skies
and dead trees...

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and the National Guard out there.
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It was just something
I didn't see in other films.

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It was just great. The dialogue
was different. There was blood.

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Night of the Living Dead--
It was in black-and-white.

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Dead trees and gray skies.
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Texas Chainsaw Massacre was like one
of those 16-millimeter accident films...

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they'd show you in school--
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the grain of it
and the saturated color of it.

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I'd be having nightmares.
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I mean, that was really
like being alive...

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and watching something instead of
something dead like a Hollywood film.

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- What was the last movie he took you to?
- Apocalypse Now.

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Did you like it?
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And he kept on saying,
"The horror."

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- Who said that?
- The guy on Apocalypse Now.


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