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"It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn't."
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"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit."
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"As a kid, I was a pretty good little sprinter."
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"Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings."
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"In my case, things have pretty much been handed to me."
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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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"I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house."
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"I messed around in high school, but I pretty much put it away until I did a television show in San Francisco."
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"I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style."
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"I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on."
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"It was delightful but, of course, it was pretty insulting to my professional reputation."
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"When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy."
Difficulty
"I love caper films."
Love
"I'm very comfortable with failure. I'm very comfortable being the guy who disappoints people."
People
"The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do."
Business
"The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well."
Movies
"A movie that costs only $1.6 million doesn't have to be a cultural event to turn a profit."
Movies
"To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally."
Job
"I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong."
Government
"It's pretty clear to me that working as a director for hire agrees with me. I like it. The films that have come out of that, I personally like better than the ones that didn't."
Pretty
"I think I'm good at amplifying an actor's strengths, and minimizing their weaknesses. And they all have strengths and weaknesses."
Actor
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