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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."
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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."
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"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things."
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"I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat."
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"When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies."
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"If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'."
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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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"Do you know what a blessing it is to make movies that make people happy?"
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"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."
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"I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic."
Economy

"I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action."
Imagination

"My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls."
Justice

"I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion."
Emotional

"Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open."
Equality

"In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets."
Poetry

"Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers."
Poetry

"The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy."
Poetry

"Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect."
Being

"The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric."
Joy
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