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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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"Hang 'em first, try 'em later."
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"When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call your piano player and let's get started.'"
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"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer."
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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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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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"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
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"After I did the first Die Hard I said I'd never do another, same after I did the second one and the third. The whole genre was running itself into the ground."
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"The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location."
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"When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down."
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"As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along."
Actor
"But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes."
Time
"I only got to be able to act, because I gave myself a job as a producer."
Act
"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
Envy
"I came to New York to be an actor and I became a film producer first."
Actor
"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 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."
First
"My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound."
Work
"It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality."
Hope
"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
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