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"I mean, Scorsese's a genius, and that's one way of shooting."
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"I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that."
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"All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience."
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"In the republic of mediocrity, genius is dangerous."
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"Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!"
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"As a bull market continues, almost anything you buy goes up. It makes you feel that investing in stocks is a very easy and safe and that you're a financial genius."
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"The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal."
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"Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius."
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"I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one."
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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."
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"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."
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"I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day."
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"But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half."
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"Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it."
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"I was dissatisfied just being an actor."
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"People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that."
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"And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do."
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"I make time to write."
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"The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors."
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"The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses."
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"I would rather just do the things I want to do."
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