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"There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives."
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"Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies."
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"If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down."
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"I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act."
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"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."
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"I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge."
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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."
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"For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid."
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"When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies."
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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."
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"I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him."
Being
"Anything you read can influence your work, so I try to read good stuff."
Work
"I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here."
Friendship
"When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home."
Home
"I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male."
Friendship
"I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money."
Money
"Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies."
Movies
"My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head."
People
"I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight."
Identity
"Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one."
Life
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