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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."
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"I think the reason we're so crazy sexually in America is that all our responses are acting. We don't know how to feel. We know how it looked in the movies."
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"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."
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"In horror, character development is often pushed aside in favor of the shock value. The best genre movies to me are movies like The Shining. You had a connection to the characters in that film."
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"When they tell me one of my old movies is on TV, I don't look at it."
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"When I go to movies I generally want to be taken to another world."
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"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"
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"I loved being behind the scenes and finding out how they make movies."
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"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."
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"I love Elmore Leonard. To me, True Romance is basically like an Elmore Leonard movie."
Love

"When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it."
Writing

"Violence is one of the most fun things to watch."
Fun

"If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels."
Writing

"It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere."
Blood

"I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced."
Thought

"I'm a historian in my own mind."
Mind

"Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way."
Dogs

"Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room."
Film

"To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence."
Movies
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