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"Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous."
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"My first student film was Orientation, which was basically the set-up for Animal House. There are a couple of scenes that we later borrowed in some form."
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"I use cinematic things in a theatrical way on stage, and in film I use theatrical techniques in a cinematic way."
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"I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that."
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"Film gives us a second chance at a first impression."
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"You are probably right when you say that I could get a role in any producer's film if I just asked."
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"Looper is another great film."
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"I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"The director is the only person who knows what the film is about."
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"Daffy, of course, wants to go on the journey with him but the studio decides they want Daffy back, so Bugs and a young studio executive heroine have to go out and try to bring him back."
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"One of the things that happens in the business is that success is a very strange thing in that if you are involved in something very successful the next person wants you to repeat it."
Business
"It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club. Your friends were there, your associates were there, your security was there."
Work
"When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays."
Feelings
"You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive."
Time
"Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score."
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"I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready."
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"Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous."
Film
"I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling."
Music
"I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies."
Movies
"There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself."
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