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"I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19."
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"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."
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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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"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."
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"No, we always had something to do because I did all the wave runners and jet skis and boats approaching the atolls and stuff like that, so you could do that without showing the actual atoll or the set that you're going towards, but detailing all those guys racing towards it."
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"No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite."
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"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
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"I think I can try the film world out for a while."
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"I am never driven. Every film I've made has been an assignment."
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"I guess I'm growing up in the film world."
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"The good thing from my perspective is that nobody puts any pressure on me to say what it's going to be. The backers accept that they don't know what they are going to get."
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"Even then, our family was extraordinary, with ten kids."
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"You don't have to tell anybody a damn thing you don't want to."
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"I met John when I was 18 and I was in my first John Waters film when I was 19."
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"But some things are the same. My mother still owns the house I grew up in, on what would now be called a cul de sac, but which the sign on the corner called a dead end street."
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"Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family."
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"The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it."
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"John is a cottage industry in Baltimore and the city opens its doors for him whenever he is making a new film."
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"It was there that, through a mutual friend, I met John Waters - proving what I've always said: you meet the best people on field trips."
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"The first things I did when I got out of school in '65 was to buy a pair of Levis and pierce my ears."
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