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"I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s."
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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"Whenever we don't turn the ball over, we're pretty productive. When you're turning the ball over, you're cutting down on offensive opportunities."
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"You'd have to think that you're at least decent, or you couldn't get up every morning and do it. I think if I live long enough, I might be pretty good."
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"With what dope I got I think it fills me in pretty well."
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"Weed, you know, you just get mellow. You can drive pretty stoned and be OK. I mean, sometimes you get too stoned and you can't drive. But you could get pretty stoned and still drive."
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"It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils."
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"That's one reason why it's pretty worthless, I can't totally buy it, if you think about it, it's things like the Phil Spector records. On one level they were rebellion, on another level they were keeping the teenager in his place."
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"I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft."
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"Ultimately, it's a pretty confusing moment."
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"But I got an audience that knows what I do. They usually show up, so I usually do pretty good."
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"I mean, this whole digital revolution is really eroding the director's importance on a movie because, number one, just from a practical standpoint, with floppy disks and the ability to put all of the film onto a disk, more people have access to the movie."
People
"The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie."
Choice
"I've found that the more experts you have on a movie, the less control the director has."
Control
"I think I've made some pretty decent films in the '80s and '90s."
Pretty
"You have to really work with someone who you think is going to be a collaborator, who you think understands what you want to do with this movie and how you want to do it."
Work
"If you cast the picture correctly, you have a whole lot of leeway. You can make mistakes in other aspects but pull it off with the right actors."
Actor
"The importance of the assistant director cannot be overemphasized."
Importance
"So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies."
Movies
"If you don't cast well, you can be in real trouble."
Trouble
"It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct."
Business
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