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"Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show."

"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."

"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."

"I've been watching so many movies and they all have to do with the DVDs. It's just so much more convenient."

"I mean, I kind of remember... I'm 36 now, so it's kind of hard for me to relate to what it was like when I was 25, or 24, but I do remember a period in time when that's how I defined who I was, by the music I listened to and the movies I went to."

"More personal films, you could make them, but your budgets would be cut down."
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"I don't know about liberal bias, but people of a liberal mentality are probably attracted in greater numbers to the arts than people of a conservative mentality."


"Well, the wonderful thing about making movies, oddly enough, is that they're sort of highly motivated graduate studies in one or another field."


"I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way."


"Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie."


"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."


"We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman."
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