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"Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him."
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"Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs."
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"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."
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"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."
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"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."
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"There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both."
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"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."
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"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood."
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"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."
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"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."
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"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
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"Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him."
Hollywood
"There's a science fiction project we really want to make, but it's very expensive. Hopefully it will happen."
Science
"If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career."
Movies
"We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient."
Work
"I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it."
Time
"I don't know why directors sign on to these projects and completely rewrite everything."
Writing
"We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence."
Sex
"With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext."
Wonder
"We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world."
Creativity
"With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it."
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