- Gregg Araki was born on December 17, 1959 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Mysterious Skin (2004), White Bird in a Blizzard (2014) and Kaboom (2010).
- Is a fan of Sheryl Lee's performance in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), which he called "one of the greatest performances in the history of cinema". Lee later made an appearance in his film White Bird in a Blizzard (2014).
- Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in
1996. - Worked as a music critic for L.A. Weekly.
- Graduated USC School of Cinema-Television.
- Mother was a bookkeeper in an ophthalmologist's office.
- 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 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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