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"I remember when first, Stripes, and then Animal House came out - which I was really proud of, even though it was kind of loose and quite raucous - there were imitative movies that were not quite as good."
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"I make movies I want to see."
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"I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants."
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"I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations."
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"I've been very successful doing voices in movies. I did Olive, the Other Reindeer, with Drew Barrymore, and I did Cats and Dogs. My children came to some of the sessions."
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"There were not fifteen people in the story department and twenty-five producers and stuff. And Roger had produced 1,000 movies and directed a couple of hundred, and their comments were always very, very specific."
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"I mean, movies are like your kids or your fingers and toes or something, it's pretty hard to pick favorites."
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"Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints."
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"Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot."
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"I know there's a great deal that Arnold Schwarzenegger could teach me about making movies. There's a great deal I could teach him about the fiscal reforms that are needed - desperately needed - to set California back in good order."
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"The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."
Advertising

"I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."
Art

"Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher."
Movies

"Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'"
Hair

"Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open."
Chance

"In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising."
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"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them."
Art

"The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself."
Creativity

"It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art."
Art

"A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is."
Mistake
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