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"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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"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."
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"A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green."
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"I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn't control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car."
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"Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth."
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"Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time."
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"The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence."
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"Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65."
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"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set."
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"Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments."
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"The New Dealers have all left Washington to make way for the car dealers."
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"I'm generally pessimistic about the dumbing down of America - especially with summer movies."
Movies
"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."
Car
"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
"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
"I thought in terms of the enthusiasm of doing it. I didn't think about whether I was ready."
Thought
"Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous."
Film
"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
"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 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
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