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"I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years."
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"I live in New York simply because I don't know any better. I moved there when the show went off the air a couple of years after that."

"Well, these days, if you're away five years, you might not be able to get back."

"I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years."

"Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds."

"At Olduvai, for 20 years, Mary and I had investigated and made a general survey of the overall geology."

"Best two rock voices I've heard in a last few years both have been from grunge bands: it's Eddie Vedder and the other one is Chris Cornell from Soundgarden."

"I met Jeb Bush in 1971 in my hometown in Mexico. We dated for three years back and forth. Then, after three years, he proposed to me."

"I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again."
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"Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines."

"Michael worked one day. Everybody was a little freaked out and nervous because he's a really big star. We were already working with really big stars, but Michael is Michael."

"There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it."

"These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school."

"I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct."

"Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy."

"I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!"

"I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews."

"By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around."
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