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E. L. Doctorow

"It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

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"It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way."

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"In real life, one of my friends was killed in a car accident during our sophomore year."

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"They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing."

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"A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green."

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"No, in Lethal Weapon I was a taxi cab driver that Mel jumps in front of the taxi and pulls me out of the car and steals the taxi. Then I did some other indie driving for some of the car sequences."

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"So the first thing that I thought about was, 'How is this car going to handle?' But then after I'd been driving with it and practicing with it and I accomplished that, then I just kind of sat back."

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"We don't have any CGI with any of the car stuff. I think it's a real experience when you see this car going through really fast really wild and you see me driving a lot of the times and also a big chase in downtown Atlanta. It's just incredible."

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"I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn't control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car."

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