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"I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials."
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"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."

"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."

"So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies."

"I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms."

"Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."

"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."
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"I just went to see too many movies and I sat in too many dark matinees watching those old serials."
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