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Val Guest

"Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing."

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"Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's real difficult to save when you don't have any money."

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"It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators travel around the country with bags of money trying to bribe witnesses to lie on the witness stand. We just don't operate that way."

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Amber Hurdle

"Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm not interested in wasting money on a project."

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Amber Hurdle

"If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it."

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Amber Hurdle

"I mean, price is price. It's just where you want to spend your money."

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Amber Hurdle

"As I've said before, free money scams are a problem."

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Amber Hurdle

"Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it."

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Amber Hurdle

"The Pentagon can't even audit its own books. It doesn't even know where its money is going. And we refuse to have the tough forces go on the Pentagon so that at least they are efficient with the money they're spending."

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Amber Hurdle

"The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money."

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"I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself."
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"At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow."
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"And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond."
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"And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years."
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"Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know."
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"I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything."
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"I don't know how we had about eighteen international stars in it, all playing James Bond."
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"I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy."
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"Oh, yes, we were on location with Another Man's Poison, which I wrote for Bette Davis."
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"Yes, The Persuaders, that was great fun because one of my favourite actors is Roger Moore."
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