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"And if people come up and say they like the movies you're in, it's a great compliment."

"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."

"The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies."

"I think everyone who makes movies should be forced to do television. Because you have to finish. You have to get it done, and there are a lot of decisions made just for the sake of making decisions. You do something because it's efficient and because it gets the story told and it connects to the audience."

"I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film."

"I figured, 'When is that ever going to happen again?'. So I basically set out the opposite way movies are made; I set out with a budget first. I said, 'What can I do well for $40,000?'."
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"Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend."

"I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that."

"Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be."

"The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps."

"After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do."

"Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast."
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