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"I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever."
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"Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch."
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"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."
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"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood."
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"In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings."
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"I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks."
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"Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons."
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"The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back."
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"I consider myself a student of Hollywood."
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"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"
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"You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well."
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"Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things."
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"I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show."
Actor
"I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs."
Work
"A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect."
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"I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that."
Chance
"First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct."
Achievement
"The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable."
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"It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree."
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"Some actors are supposed to be very difficult, but I've not found that to be the situation."
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"Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made."
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