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John Sayles

"Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative."

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"Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative."

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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."

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"Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."

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"Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream; nobody is too old for cartoons; bald men are sexy; chocolate is the best medicine; BIG books are better; cats secretly rule the planet; and everything should be available in the color pink, including monster trucks."

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"But, you know, I just want to play well and have fun playing well."

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"I'm involved in the stock market, which is fun and, sometimes, very painful."

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"I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport."

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"I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity."

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"It's funny to be a critic."

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"Some kind of fun lasts longer than others."

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"You know, it was just another presentation of my work, and a funny one, because the cards are quite different from the normal Tarot deck, no?"

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"I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me."
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"We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe.' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised."
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"To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'"
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"I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference."
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