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"The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons."
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"I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized."
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"Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show."
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"I'd rather direct than produce. Any day. And twice on Sunday."
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"You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office."
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"I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies."
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"Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies."
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"Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies, it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies."
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"I have a sneaking suspicion that if there were a way to make movies without actors, George Lucas would do it."
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"I always felt that if I made a movie, it would be one movie; I didn't see how they could make 26 swimming movies."
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"There's not a lot of good movies being made."
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"I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York City."
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"I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion."
Family
"Television has created a nation of news junkies who tune in every night to get their fix on the world."
Nation
"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."
Opinion
"We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer."
Family
"And I'm in favor of that because I have a gay son, who's a very successful theater designer."
Family
"The greatest luxury is being able to go to movies and plays now and then in the afternoons."
Movies
"Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That America can't be quite as good as it says it is. And why does it need so relentlessly to keep saying how good it is?"
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"I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary."
Opinion
"Yes, after some time spent last year on other commitments, most of them speaking engagements, I am now about halfway through a novel that I hope will come out in 1998."
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