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"You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything."
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"The ultimate profit of all businesses should be happiness."
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"I'm done in this business, that's for sure."
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"In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing."
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"When your in the movie business you have a start date and a stop date."
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"The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation."
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"Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business."
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"Anybody who finds it easy to make money on the horses is probably in the dog food business."
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"That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business."
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"Leave the President's family business to him. You will have plenty to do without trying to manage the First Family. They are likely to do fine without your help."
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"I was well aware of the fact that once you appeared in Doctor Who as something else, you were ruled out for the part of the Doctor: that was a kind of well known thing in the business."
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"I blame it on Walt Disney, where animals are given human qualities. People don't understand that a wild animal is not something that is nice to pat. It can seriously harm you."
People
"If you wait until the right time to have a child you'll die childless, and I think film making is very much the same thing. You just have to take the plunge and just start shooting something even if it's bad."
Time
"It took me a long time to realize that you have to have a bit of an interlanguage with actors. You have to give them something that they can act with."
Time
"I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth."
Love
"I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to the ocean."
Love
"The film industry is about saying 'no' to people, and inherently you cannot take 'no' for an answer."
People
"I had pictured myself as a filmmaker but I had never pictured myself as a director if that makes any sense at all."
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"I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots."
Design
"I lived in a small town. It was 2,000 people in Canada. A little river that went through it and we swam in the - you know, there was a lot of water around. Niagara Falls was about four or five miles away."
People
"Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee."
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