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"When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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"When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'"

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"I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it."

"I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories."

"Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful."

"I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant."

"I remember growing up with television, from the time it was just a test pattern, with maybe a little bit of programming once in a while."

"You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again."

"Listen, if there's one sure-fire rule that I have learned in this business, it's that I don't know anything about human nature."
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