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"Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes."
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"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."

"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."

"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."

"So, you need to balance it out with bigger and smaller movies."

"I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms."

"Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."

"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."
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"But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality."


"My own way of thinking is to ponder long and I hope deeply on problems and for a long time which I keep away for years and years and I never really let them go."


"And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about."


"In the book, I make the point that here we have string theory and here we have twistor theory and we don't know if either one of them is the right approach to nature."


"Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion."


"Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much."
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