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"David Burnett was the son of Martha Foley, who edited the Best American Short Stories series. She hired me to work with David and her to read stories for the anthology."
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"The only work I did for the next five years after splitting from Vincent was work I'd already lined up."
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"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, "Does this suck?" and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, "I'm on fire, I'm amazing!" and I don't think that's the way to work."
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"The world is sick of big IT things that don't work."
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"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."
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"I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work."
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"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"
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"To work is to feel alive."
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"My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts."
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"When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out."
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"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."
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"In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer."
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"It was a good experience working with Roger Vadim and Jane Fonda."
Experience
"You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way."
Society
"When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian."
Time
"After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector."
Work
"I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers."
Time
"Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best."
Writing
"It's frustrating not to have more control over your material."
Control
"For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of."
Writing
"When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor."
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