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"Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded."
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"Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs."
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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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"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."
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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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"That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner."
Business
"Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case."
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"There is nothing like the high of being on stage and reaping applause, especially for emotionally needy people like me!"
People
"I was born in Chicago and grew up in the suburb of Evanston."
Chicago
"Write the kind of movie you would want to see, in a genre you love."
Love
"I am a big fan of the TV series Taxi which combined comedy and pathos better than any other show I've seen."
Comedy
"Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded."
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"The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards."
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"I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days."
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"I became much happier when I realized I shouldn't depend solely on my career for my sense of self. So I developed other interests and surrounded myself with a small group of friends I could trust."
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