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"I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game."
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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."

"How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?"

"I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop."

"We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way."

"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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"I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2."

"If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not."

"When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way."

"I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie."

"I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price."

"You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie."

"I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between."

"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."

"I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director."
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