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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 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 mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."
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"Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies."
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"Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere."
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"You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting."
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"Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies."
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"I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies."
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"When I played Dean Martin, he was dead when we made the movie but there would have been nothing better than to spend a week with Dean Martin if I could have."
Martin

"I did plays and movies and whatever all over the place."
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"I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters."
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"There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever."
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"If at the end of the day, people look at it and say, oh, yeah, I liked his stuff, or for the most part I liked his stuff, or I've enjoyed watching some of the things he's done, that's all I can hope for."
People

"I've loved it, but I have a wife and two children."
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"But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways."
Society

"For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next."
Career

"I reached that day that I always thought might happen, where I say to myself I don't want to do this anymore. I'm looking for some stability. I want to stay home."
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"I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life."
Life
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