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"People say, You paid your dues, but I never paid any dues. It's always been a great trip."
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"It was the beginning of film for television. So we had all of these great opportunities. Northwestern was probably the only major film school of its kind at the time that was graduating anybody important."
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"I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective."
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