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"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."
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"I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan."

"Oral Roberts is a greed-crazed white-trash lunatic who should have been hung upside down from a telephone pole on the outskirts of Tulsa 44 years ago, before he somehow transmogrified into the money-sucking animal that he became when he discovered television."

"A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation."

"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."

"We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river."
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"I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work."


"Somebody once said, you have to wait 20 years before you can tell if a movie's any good or not so that's probably true."


"If I could go back I might change Geronimo a bit. If I do, it will be made a longer version."


"Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor."


"I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies."


"I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago."


"Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it."
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