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

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"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it."

"I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted."

"I have a record company starting. It's called Flesh Records and I'm putting together music for porno movies."

"They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up."

"I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies."

"When I think of the definition of cool and when I look at people, John Travolta is really the definition of cool because, not only is he great in all his movies, but, as a person, he's just really cool."

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

"I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film."

"Movies, obviously, are a little more lucrative. The initial paycheck is better."

"I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon."

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"The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a greater humanity than the European, which even among its beggars has an all too professional air."

"When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans."

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

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

"Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior."

"In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons."

"You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex."

"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."

"Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard."