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"The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write."
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"It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger."
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"Working is hard and distracts from having fun."
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"It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something."
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"Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream; nobody is too old for cartoons; bald men are sexy; chocolate is the best medicine; BIG books are better; cats secretly rule the planet; and everything should be available in the color pink, including monster trucks."
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"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified."
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"It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget."
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"I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films."
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"It's good to ski for fun, but I still want to win races as often as possible."
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"What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down."
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"You'd be surprised how much fun you can have sober. When you get the hang of it."
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"I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention."
Attention
"Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me."
Art
"All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise you're just playing about."
Truth
"The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it."
Genius
"I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories."
Television
"I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway."
Science
"Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is."
Family
"I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan."
Television
"People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom."
People
"You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five."
Money
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