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"It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method."
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"When it ceases to be fun, I'll stop and just stay in my restaurants."
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"It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they were in 1954, when I was doing my research."
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"We wouldn't have done it if we didn't think we could have fun with it."
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"I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer."
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"Of course, it's fun to play with Blacks."
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"It's kind of fun when it's you versus them."
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"Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking."
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"Remember these two things: play hard and have fun."
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"Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt."
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"You see a moral in them? Do we have morals?"
Morals
"And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before."
Home
"Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age."
Age
"I guess everything having to do with your background has some influence on how you tell stories but it's hard to parse how growing up in a Jewish community in Minnesota really affected it."
Community
"If the material is challenging, it forces you to challenge yourself when handling it."
Challenge
"The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first."
People
"When you do a writing job for a studio, one of the things you want to do is satisfy the expectations of your employer. That's a little bit different than when you sit down and write something to satisfy yourself, because then you're the employer."
Expectation
"People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint."
Work
"The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story."
Architecture
"It's almost like a genre rule: Don't Open The Box."
Box
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