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"I was born in 1942, so I was mainly aware of Howard Hughes' name on RKO Radio Pictures."
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"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."
"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."
"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."
"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."
"Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets."
"When we were doing 'Freaks and Geeks', I didn't quite understand how movies and TV worked, and I would improvise even if the camera wasn't on me. I thought I was helping the other actors by keeping them on their toes, but nobody appreciated it when I would trip them up. So I was improvising a little bit back then, but not in a productive way."
"I was the only swimmer in movies. Tarzan was long gone, and he couldn't have done them anyway; he could never have gotten into my bathing suit."
"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies."
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"I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera."
"There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut."
"I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening."
"I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all."
"I grew up within Italian-American neighborhoods, everybody was coming into the house all the time, kids running around, that sort of stuff, so when I finally got into my own area, so to speak, to make films, I still carried on."
"It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily."
"Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt."
"What the Dalai Lama had to resolve was whether to stay in Tibet or leave. He wanted to stay, but staying would have meant the total destruction of Tibet, because he would have died and that would have ripped the heart out of his people."
"I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side; it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the people I knew."
"Howard Hughes was this visionary who was obsessed with speed and flying like a god... I loved his idea of what filmmaking was."
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