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"Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed."
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"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."
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"What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff."
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"There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives."
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"Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies."
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"We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama."
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"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."
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"I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it."
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"If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down."
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"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"
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"When I think of the definition of cool and when I look at people, John Travolta is really the definition of cool because, not only is he great in all his movies, but, as a person, he's just really cool."
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"To play a bag woman is brave for any woman."
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"I love men in bed when they are sleeping. But then they have to go and wake up."
Love
"I've been on shows that go for shock value."
Values
"When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!"
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"I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything."
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"The planet does nothing but support us, and we are constantly committing crimes against nature."
Nature
"Before I do a movie, I watch Meryl Streep movies over and over. It's not to mimic her. It's to remind myself to be more committed."
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"When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again."
Nothing
"My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays."
Mom
"I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus."
Dating
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