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"And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood."
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"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."
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"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."
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"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."
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"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."
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"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."
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"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
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"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."
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"It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings."
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"I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags."
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"Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch."
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"While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music."
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"We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts."
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"We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do."
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"I had had a classical education prior to that."
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"But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along."
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"I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now."
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"I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios."
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"Well, I worked with lots of different artists, of course."
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"I worked with practically everybody in the business in all of the years in NBC, but I worked personally many years with people like Crosby and Sinatra, so of course that was a great ground school for me."
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"I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now."
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