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"It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England."
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"Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."
"He prefers a deliberate performance that can be made to seem spontaneous."
"To pay 60 musicians for rehearsal and performance is quite something, and I decided I wouldn't be able to handle that kind of situation financially again, unless somebody else was taking care of that end of it."
"I made many studio albums and I think the danger of studio recording is that if you do not watch out, you come out with a perfectly sterile performance."
"It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance."
"The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as they were they could immediately detect any false gesture, any false word. You could never underestimate an audience. They had paid to get in; they had paid for drinks; they intended to get something and if you didn't give it to them they'd run you right into the ocean."
"Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational."
"Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital."
"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."
"I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation."
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"It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy."
"I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut."
"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"
"At this point, it's either for fun or it's for money. I don't take movies that I don't really like."
"Although you have some films that are a real bummer, there's always a film that comes up where it's just heaven."
"From the very first movie I ever made to the current time, there have been times between action and cut when I've sensed some kind of new dimension that I haven't been familiar with before."
"As a boy I believed I could make myself invisible. I'm not sure that I ever could, but I certainly had the ability to pass unnoticed."
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