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"I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe."
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"If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?"
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"But somehow, I felt no inclination to be interested in it in any amateur way, let alone professional, until suddenly I became interested. And the first thing I did was to compose: not play an instrument, but to compose."
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"When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub."
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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
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"The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it."
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"So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there."
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"And the things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first."
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"First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on."
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"After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine."
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"And no again: My studio is not a first or any step toward becoming any type of businessman on my part."
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"Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact."
Character
"New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper."
People
"But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time."
Time
"Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises."
Problems
"My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound."
Work
"I produced six movies with Amy Robinson since the very early '80s."
Movies
"In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We could only get a certain amount of money for our pictures, which made them low budget movies, but they were distributed through studios."
Money
"I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first."
Actor
"I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word."
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"I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe."
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