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"I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway."
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"If it was Europe, I just picked a country that I hadn't been to, but I didn't try to check up on what was going on in the country or anything like that. I just went and had a good time and met a lot of very nice people who are still my friends."

"So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right."

"People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it."

"Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there."

"I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole generations come along liking that stuff and that's great."

"You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it's in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they're giving me."

"There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal."

"Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot faster, but the product... I don't think it's as good as a film."
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