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"I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing."
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"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."

"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

"To 'live' is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived."

"Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs."

"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it."

"Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else."

"Any experience can be transformed into something of value."
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"When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view."


"It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia."


"Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative."


"I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed."


"I wouldn't even get elected. I'd probably deck a couple of people, too which would not play very well with the national media."


"You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them."


"My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom."


"American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information."


"I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost."
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