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"At MTV, it's very nice sometimes to be able to be very specific. Specificity really makes a news story interesting because you can color it in that personality."
"Some of those stories in local newspapers are just as dull and boring as the stories that I get from on-line services, which are basically sort of straight news."
"No news is good news unless it is told."
"Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic."
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"One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors."
"The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio."
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"I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films."
"It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor."
"I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick."
"My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her."
"Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realise that it is going to come to an end at some stage."
"I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising."
"My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure."
"I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word."
"I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit."
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