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"You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood."
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"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."

"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."

"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."

"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."

"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."

"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
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"I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems."

"But, you know there's a lot of westerns - not that they were bad - it's just that they can be remade because they're great stories that aren't indelible in an audience's mind when it comes to both the cast and the story."

"I guess after Dances With Wolves they probably tried some derivative westerns, and if they didn't work, they said the western is dead and moved on to something else."

"I realized I really liked the screen. I knew it was a challenge, but I wasn't afraid of risk."

"I don't feel the obligation to have a big explosion in the first 20 seconds so the audience doesn't turn on another channel. We are trying to make something that looks like a feature film that was bought for television and I think we are succeeding."

"I feel the other element of a western is the land, which is very important in this movie. I mean the land is another character in the piece, actually."

"I praise CBS for taking a risk, which is always the price you pay for opportunity. This is not standard movie of the week storytelling. I think movies of the week have fallen into a niche and that isn't my niche."

"Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox."
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