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"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie."
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"Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about."
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"The things that I've done that have totally been remembered, they've always started with the same kind of engine, they've always started with someone saying 'I have to make this film - I'm going to make this film whatever the odds'."
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"It was very much about performances, the whole ensemble thing was just great - everybody working together. Sometimes it didn't feel like a film set. It wasn't technically driven, it was very, very enjoyable."
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"If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line."
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"I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing."
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"When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film."
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"You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars."
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"We get along really well, but TV and film aren't reality. We're best friends, but we do have our fights!"
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"John Barry was the first film composer I was aware of. As a teenager I owned several of his Bond soundtracks."
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"I lived in Vancouver, where they film so many things. So it gave me a good shot at it."
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"I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object."
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"I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out."
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"This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes."
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"Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate."
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"I come from a family of great readers and storytellers."
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"But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie."
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"But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here."
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"But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on."
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"I think genetic research is a fascinating and fertile area."
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"Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do."
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