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"Everything I learned I learned from the movies."
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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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"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."
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"What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff."
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"There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives."
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"Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies."
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"We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama."
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"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."
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"I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic."
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"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."
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"I'm also doing constant book readings, movies. You name it, I'm doing it."
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"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true."
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"Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same."
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"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."
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"I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it."
Life

"I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine."
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"Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing."
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"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair."
Beauty

"It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'"
Idea

"People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone."
People

"Everything I learned I learned from the movies."
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