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"When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays."
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"My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that."
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"You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today."
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"You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway."
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"I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward."
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"What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it."
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"We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings."
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"It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back."
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"I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings."
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"Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did."
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"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous."
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"Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score."
Time
"I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling."
Music
"It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club. Your friends were there, your associates were there, your security was there."
Work
"There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself."
Music
"I did 10 years of comedies and 10 years of Westerns. I really like to stay away from car chases. I prefer the more intimate film. You have a much more direct association with the emotions."
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"You wouldn't think it would but my parents were really balanced about that. When it came time for me to be out of the house and out on my own they were very supportive."
Time
"When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays."
Feelings
"I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready."
Thought
"I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies."
Movies
"Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous."
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