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Mary McCarthy

"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

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

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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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"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."

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

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"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."

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"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

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"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."

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"I like the idea of movies having a magic element. How many times have you seen an actor in a movie who you know only as the character? It's wonderful, isn't it?"

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"The reason I chose the movies that I did was based on where they were being filmed."

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"I don't know if I see myself as really an action hero, but I like doing physical movies and I like doing movies where the writing is very lean."

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Mary McCarthy
"People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children."

People

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Mary McCarthy
"In violence, we forget who we are."

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Mary McCarthy
"We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story."

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Mary McCarthy
"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."

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Mary McCarthy
"Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

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Mary McCarthy
"I'm afraid I'm not sufficiently inhibited about the things that other women are inhibited about for me. They feel that you've given away trade secrets."

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Mary McCarthy
"Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man."

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Mary McCarthy
"The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof."

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Mary McCarthy
"The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process."

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"The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist, who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero."

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