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"In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies."
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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."
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"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."
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"I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones."
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"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."
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"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."
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"In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron."
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"Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites."
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"Yeah, I do like scary movies, especially the ones that don't take themselves too seriously."
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"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."
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"When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't."
Growing up
"The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them."
Country
"The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service."
Service
"I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra."
Acting
"Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure."
Music
"By the time I was 22, I was a professional. A young and flawed professional, but not an amateur."
Time
"So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work."
Work
"Every writer I've ever spoken to feels fraudulent in some way or other."
Writer
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."
Art
"The fact is popular art dates. It grows quaint. How many people feel strongly about Gilbert and Sullivan today compared to those who felt strongly in 1890?"
Art
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