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"I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."
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"I love these movies where it's just about the film. You don't have my face on the poster. It's all about the movie. I like that."
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"I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American."
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"Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis."
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"I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut."
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"If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that."
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"I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like."
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"Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!"
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"New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something."
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"The film is not a success until it makes money. It's only good when there's a dollar figure attached to the box office."
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"The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness."
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"Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are."
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"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."
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"This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus."
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"We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him."
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"I believe we are now in a struggle over whether or not we are going to save America."
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"I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen."
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"So, if I were arrested or if I were killed, then after me the issues that American fears about me wouldn't exist anymore - and I couldn't tell you what those issues are."
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"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese."
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"Then on to all the terrific american songwriters, from Tin Pan Alley to the Beatles, from Bob Dylan to Paul Simon. Whoever wrote and sang in the song form I have appreciated."
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"Americans can pretty much sing anything, whereas foreign singers are often limited in style, language, even composer."
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