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David Zucker

"So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens."

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"So, it didn't do well. But now when I talk to kids who are first seeing it, they're surprised to hear the movie failed at the box office. Sometimes that's what happens."

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Angie karan

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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Angie karan

"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

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Angie karan

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Angie karan

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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Angie karan

"Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something."

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Angie karan

"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."

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Angie karan

"It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it."

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Angie karan

"Movies are movies, and I don't think any of them are going to hurt the moral fiber of America and all that nonsense."

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Angie karan

"I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays."

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Angie karan

"Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man."

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David Zucker
"The only one that got through was Jimmy Walker, because he plays the gas station attendant. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, it's just that we were kind of purists at the time, and we didn't want any comedians."

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David Zucker
"I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off."

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David Zucker
"I think that came out of watching all those serious movies for all that time. If you watch a movie like Zero Hour, Sterling Hayden is pretty funny, and so are the guys in the cockpit."

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David Zucker
"We didn't realize it at the time, but the release date, the ad campaign and the poster are so important."

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David Zucker
"What I would do is a 10-minute short of some kind on video, and if it's good enough, you get it passed around town and just get some attention, so then they'll read what you have."

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David Zucker
"Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign."

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David Zucker
"Woody Allen has done some excellent serious movies, too, like Crimes And Misdemeanors. Very overlooked movie, I think, and really his best. And currently I like Big Fish!"

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David Zucker
"I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us."

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David Zucker
"I think once we started directing separately - we each have different kinds of interests now, and the kinds of movies we want to do. I wouldn't hold your breath for that one."

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David Zucker
"Tim Burton is underrated. I loved Big Fish, loved that movie, think it's the best movie of the year, hands down. Really impressed with that."

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