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"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."
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"Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"I believe that the story is the most important element of any medium whether it's theater, film, TV."
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"On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film."
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"I have a movie coming out called Spun, which will be at the Toronto Film Fest."
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"Even better, there were established two separate committees deciding on state film funding."
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"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."
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"A film based on a jolly good John Grisham book is fine, but I like to get a bit under the skin."
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"I think American audiences are quite interesting in that they can handle almost any amount of violence, but the moment the violence becomes sexual violence it immediately becomes an issue."
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"I mean, I guess I realized subconsciously that this is what I should be doing before I realized it, consciously. Verbally, I don't think I had committed to it, even though I was driving everywhere, every night, just trying to get on stage."
Driving
"I mean, I guess I started during the comedy boom, so it was literally like, on Sunday you could decide you wanted to be a comic, and on Monday, you could be on stage."
Comedy
"I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone."
Dream
"I had temping jobs also. I liked the flexibility. There was no asking for time off; you just didn't work."
Time
"I loved Australia. I was very successful there."
Success
"I will not be misquoted!"
Will
"I love chicken. I would eat chicken fingers on Thanksgiving if it were socially acceptable."
Love
"I don't know any astronauts. There are a lot of people who say they want to be comedians."
People
"People in New York love having roof parties."
Love
"I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right."
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