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"Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America."
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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."
"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"
"What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?"
"Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars."
"So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor."
"Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."
"I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them."
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"Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist."
"Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece."
"But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before."
"I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork."
"She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister."
"Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character."
"The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light."
"Unfortunately what came out of it was also kind of an imitation community with a lot of mindless conformity."
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