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"I want to be all used up when I die."
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"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one."
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"What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."
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"I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it."
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"When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads."
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"I just want to keep doing what I feel."
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"I didn't want to wear a checked shirt and grow a mustache - that's what you had to do, and everyone did."
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"If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that."
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"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age."
Age

"We don't have any rules about how we depict violence, or how much violence is in a movie. It's a calibration on a case-by-case basis."
Rules

"I guess there's a certain amount of poking fun at certain characters, but that's because there is something amusing about them or about the way they behave, so I guess you can say that that's poking fun at the character. But the character is your own invention, so who cares?"
Character

"Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across."
Story

"These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one."
Work

"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story."
Architecture

"When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer."
Expectation

"I couldn't have been happier with the relationship we had with Disney, it couldn't have been easier."
Disney

"We create monsters and then we can't control them."
Control

"I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people."
Work
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