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"Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination."
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"Always seek beauty to create a beautiful life."

"For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."

"I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across-not to just depict life-or criticize it-but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can't do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can't believe in it. Things aren't that way."

"Make movies my friend " make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul."

"My poems are only bits of scratchingon the floor of acage."

"A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart."

"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."

"Some writers closet themselves - I write wherever I am because that's where life is happening ..."
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"I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything."

"You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing."

"Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust."

"You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them."

"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."

"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation."

"There are a great number of Republicans who are economically conservative but have hearts and a consciousness about their country."

"I started getting on my feet and clowning around, and they ended up putting me in a play when I was 12. And I was hooked."

"Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision."

"I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class."
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