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Gregg Araki

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Graduated USC School of Cinema-Television.

Worked as a music critic for L.A. Weekly.

Shortly after the release of "The Living End", Araki's stated age in interviews began to change anywhere from one to five years younger than his actual age. At one point, his given age would have him releasing his first film at age 23, while still in grad school. Press interviews conducted in 1991 or earlier contain his actual age. Araki was born in 1959.

Grew up in Santa Barbara before moving to Los Angeles to attend university.

Mother was a bookkeeper in an ophthalmologist's office

According to an interview, MTV projected the budget for Araki's TV series pilot This Is How the World Ends (2000) (TV) to be $1.5 million. Instead of giving him that amount, they only gave him $700,000 and were hoping find partners to finance the difference. Araki offered to make the pilot for $700,000 and MTV took him up on it. After the pilot was shot, it was not picked up for broadcast.

Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in 1996.

Personal Quotes

"The music is all from my personal collection. A lot of the attitude, and the feelings of alienation, disenfranchisement and anger, comes from the music. I'm much more into buying CDs than I am into keeping up with current movies." - about his music in his films.

"I can't think of one Hollywood director whose next film I'm looking forward to seeing."

"I couldn't make movies like this if I started to worry about what Jerry Falwell is going to have to say about it."

"Small distributors have become like mini-studios. There's an expectation at this point, with these runaway successes like Napoleon Dynamite, that every film needs to make tons and tons of money to be successful. But the old-school independent movies like Mysterious Skin, movies that attack a challenging subject, need companies like Tartan."

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