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Laura Dern

"Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly."

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Asa Don Brown

"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us."

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Asa Don Brown

"Work is good when people are responsible, and in low-budget movies a lot of the actors don't want to be there. They're there to build a resume."

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Asa Don Brown

"Movies give me an opportunity to go places. I'm not only a Swede but an American, not just a man of my time, but I've been living 2,000 years ago-and not just in a new country, America, but in the Holy Land, too."

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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"Basically, there's not enough sex in movies, that's it. I'm trying to say it, people. I miss sex in movies because sex is natural, guns are not."

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Asa Don Brown

"You see so many movies... the younger people who are coming from MTV or who are coming from commercials and there's no sense of film grammar. There's no real sense of how to tell a story visually. It's just cut, cut, cut, cut, cut, you know, which is pretty easy."

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Asa Don Brown

"It's something that was very interesting to me to be a part of and all of them again because of the relationship. Some of the superhero movies are better than others."

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Laura Dern
"When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble."

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Laura Dern
"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time."

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Laura Dern
"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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Laura Dern
"I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner."

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Laura Dern
"Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job."

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Laura Dern
"My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother."

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Laura Dern
"Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about."

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Laura Dern
"I was raised by an actress, and I watched all those women turn 60 and ask, Shouldn't get face work? My mother and Anne Bancroft said, We're not going to fall into that."

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Laura Dern
"It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one."

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Laura Dern
"It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents."

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