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Norman Jewison

"But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies."

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"But Madonna has a small amount of talent when it comes to movies."

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"Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies."

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"If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down."

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"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"

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"I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act."

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"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."

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"I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge."

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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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"For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid."

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"When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies."

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"And even Moonstruck - for some reason the audience were just in the mood for a very romantic film, because it's one of the few romantic comedies to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar."
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"In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio."
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"And I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."
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"Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film."
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"It's an entire industry focusing on young male viewers that want action and violence. They sell us something that isn't valid. They're selling films like a product."
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"I think all Nazis didn't see themselves as bad people. I've never met a racist yet who thought he was a racist. Or an anti-Semite who thought they were anti-Semitic."
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"A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing."
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"I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters."
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