"I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down."

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"I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down."

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"I didn't get the degree because in my last year, for my thesis film I made a feature called Permanent Vacation and they'd given me a scholarship, the Louis B Mayer fellowship and they made a mistake."

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"I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down."

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"I started working with friends of mine and that, to some degree, continues."

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"Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper."

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"Contradiction was something I really like when it is embraced in that kind of philosophy."

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"I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it."

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"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."

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"Sex and love represent one of the numerous absurdities and hopeless incongruences demarking human nature. A person whom only seeks out sex and eschews love will live a barren existence. Sex without love is a brute display of physical reproductive capacity. Sex is not a worthless or stupid activity when it forms a cog in a loving and affectionate relationship. Sex and love might not make the world go round, but when joined they make it a better place to live in."

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"If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share."

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"I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex."

Robert Benton, American Director

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"People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized."

Ben Hecht, American Writer

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"Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass."

Grace Metalious, American Novelist

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