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Joseph Barbera

"Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies."

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"Bill Hanna and I owe an awful lot to television, but we both got our start and built the first phase of our partnership in the movies."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies."

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"I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism."

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"I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon."

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"I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different kinds of fees."

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Amber Hurdle

"Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen."

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Amber Hurdle

"I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that."

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"It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies."

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"I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act."

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"I was watching 'Up In The Air' and I thought, 'Jesus, who's the old gray-haired guy?' And it was me. I never wear makeup for movies and now it's starting to show."

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Amber Hurdle

"Movies are movies, television is television."

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"Parents look at me like I'm somebody pretty important, and say, We were raised on your characters, and now we're enjoying them all over again with our children."
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