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"The world system is employment."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."

"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!"

"What does it mean for an actor to make a part his own? It means that he takes on what you had intended and starts to put in his own stuff so that it becomes something that could only happen if he played it."

"I've done it with Broadcast News-where there was no finish line, there was no agenda that I had to move all the characters to this point, that I was sort of open to what happens."

"I love romantic comedy, but I think you have to have another idea that you're chasing along with romantic comedy."

"Media reporting denied privacy to anybody doing what I do for a living. It was no longer possible to work on your picture in privacy."

"You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world."
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