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"So, while we're sitting here on this luxury yacht enjoying our bread and water, why doesn't someone tell me the plan?"
"If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure."
"After all, that's all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance."
"Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice."
"Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look."
"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."
"There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls."
"Because sometimes you just have to dance like a madman in the Self-Help section of your local bookstore."
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"I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge."
"One of the things I really like about Ford's films is how there is always a focus on the way characters live, and not just the male heroes."
"I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films."
"I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement."
"To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain."
"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"
"I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance."
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