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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."
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"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"
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"What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?"
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"I like plays, movies, everything. It doesn't matter."
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"I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film."
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"And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used."
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"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."
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"I'd rather do movies 'cause I am better at movies, but I do shows 'cause the opportunities have come forward."
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"What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say, oh, that's period. We didn't want to do the stereotypical stuff."
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"I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that."
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"So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies."
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"So in those days, they were scooping up any young person who could sing and look decent, ah, at the same time."
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"I was born in New Orleans, and I wasn't allowed to go to the movies."
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"I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do."
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"I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening."
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"And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days."
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"My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there."
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"And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived."
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"The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up."
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