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"I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Now I can go back to being ruthless again."
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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors."
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"I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy."
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"Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich."
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"Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it."
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"I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films."
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"It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form."
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"I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most."
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"Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone."
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"I think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."
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"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
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