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"Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music."
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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."
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"The other two things are... well, I had a huge appetite for old black and white movies on BBC 2. At the weekends they used to run matinees, and the more romantic the better."
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"The fact is, it's hard to release movies."
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"There are some movies I can watch over and over, never get sick of. I'll put one of those on and be puttering around the house. Then a certain scene will come on and I'll just have to go over and watch."
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"You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them.You can make movies for a select audience, but you have to market it to them."
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"They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up."
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"I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s."
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"Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me."
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"Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!"
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"I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized."
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"I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's."
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"Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music."
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"Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed."
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"I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten."
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"Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene."
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"People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys."
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"I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos."
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"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."
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"To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box."
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"With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues."
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