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"Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult."
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"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"

"People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.The black and the black and the black."

"I'll often rush out from Dark Shadows, having made a 5.30PM appointment, working for a couple of hours."

"Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance."

"The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one."

"She spoke of these with animation, and heard my admiring comments with a smile of pleasure: that soon, however, vanished, and was followed by a melancholy sigh; as if in consideration of the insufficiency of all such baubles to the happiness of the human heart, and their woeful inability to supply its insatiate demands."
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"I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money!"

"It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks."

"My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am."

"If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work."

"People ask me from time to time what it was like growing up with Henry Fonda as my father. I say, Ever see Fort Apache? He was like Colonel Thursday."

"Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in."
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