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"My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules."
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"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier."
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"I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards."
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"I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose."
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"I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play."
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"I usually play disenfranchised youth."
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"For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition."
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"The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different."
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"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement."
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"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."
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"I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast."
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"I'm not a believer in the pratfall. I don't think it's funny just to have someone fall down."
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"I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers."
Passion
"First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?"
First
"We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing."
Nature
"There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great."
Film
"I had a lot of fun working with John Candy. We had a pretty good rapport."
Fun
"The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House."
Thought
"I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about."
Life
"My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club."
People
"My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules."
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