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"And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to."
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"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
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"I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately."
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"Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist."
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"I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage."
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"What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."
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"By reading Huckleberry Finn I felt I was able to justify my act of going into the mountain forest at night and sleeping among the trees with a sense of security which I could never find indoors."
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"And so we have to be careful with looking at additional stimulus that we don't provoke an increase in the bond rate and then offset a lot of the stimulus we've already got."
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"Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write."
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"Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things."
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"And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!"
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"I make movies I want to see."
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"And with Aaron, I'd have to find a reason not to work with him."
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"I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction."
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"If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff."
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"My best male friend is my best friend until he crosses me. We're all protective of the self."
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"I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation."
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"Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even."
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"People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape."
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"And I've got some screenplays and plays ready to dip into when I need to."
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"Everyone has a little bit of Howard and Chad in them. I think there's Christine in all men as well."
Man
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