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"When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do."

"I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there."

"I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways."

"It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies."

"There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood."

"There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both."
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"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."

"Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood."

"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."

"If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?"

"Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood."

"I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films."

"You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood."

"In Hollywood through the 50s, there were black, English, and Middle European housekeepers and maids."
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