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"I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most."
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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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"There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both."
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"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood."
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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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"I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola."
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"I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy."
Politics
"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
Film
"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
Film
"It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance."
Luck
"Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich."
Society
"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."
Film
"The truth will only be told over a career."
Truth
"I want to make a film about a factory worker."
Film
"I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists."
Psychology
"I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films."
Trouble
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